Re: VESA assumes 1MB of video memory?

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From: Matan Ziv-Av (matan@svgalib.org)
Date: Tue 05 Jun 2001 - 09:45:47 IDT


On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Kevin D. Quitt wrote:

> I'm running G640x480x256; what happens if I only have 512K of video memory?
>  It looks like I get to put lots of patches in vesa.c - or am I missing
> something?

vesa driver does not assume the amount of memory, but uses information
from the vesa bios : the line 
    vesa_memory = vesa_data.info->total_memory*64;

It is possible that your bios reports the wrong amount of video memory.


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Matan Ziv-Av.                         matan@svgalib.org




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