Bug 23887

Summary: Misdetection of MACH64 video RAM
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Stelian Pop <stelian>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brock Organ <borgan>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Stelian Pop 2001-01-12 16:07:44 UTC 
Anaconda misdetects the amount of memory present on my video card: 256KB
instead of 8MB.

[root@biwa stelian]# /sbin/lspci 
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x]
(rev 44)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo
MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev
22)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 11)
00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev
30)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]
(rev 08)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro
AGP-133 (rev dc)
[root@biwa stelian]# /sbin/lspci -n
00:00.0 Class 0600: 1106:0691 (rev 44)
00:01.0 Class 0604: 1106:8598
00:07.0 Class 0601: 1106:0596 (rev 22)
00:07.1 Class 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 10)
00:07.2 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 11)
00:07.3 Class 0600: 1106:3050 (rev 30)
00:0a.0 Class 0200: 8086:1229 (rev 08)
01:00.0 Class 0300: 1002:4c42 (rev dc)

Stelian.
Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-01-16 00:47:11 UTC 
Assigning to a developer.
Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-01-17 23:16:40 UTC 
Can you run ddcprobe and send me the output?
Comment 3 Stelian Pop 2001-01-17 23:23:43 UTC 
Will send you this tomorow morning (Europe TZ), it was a test machine at work,
don't have access to it right now.

Stelian.
Comment 4 Brent Fox 2001-01-18 02:03:31 UTC 
Is this a laptop?  I'm curious.  I've seen this behavior on other Mach64's, but
they were laptops.  My guess is that the memory that the card is returning is
understating what it should be.  Usually, an 8 Meg card will return results like
128 x 64 for it's memory, which is 8192 kb, or 8 Megs.  However, on some Mach
64's and also some ATI's, the card will report 127 x 64, which is 64k less than
we expected.  I've already added code to check for this condition, so this issue
may already be resolved, but I need the output of ddcprobe to make sure.
Comment 5 Stelian Pop 2001-01-18 12:19:58 UTC 
Here it comes, the output of ddcprobe.

This is *not* a laptop.

You seem to be right, the card reports 127*64...

Stelian.
Comment 6 Stelian Pop 2001-01-18 12:20:47 UTC 
Created attachment 7788 [details]
ddcprobe output
Comment 7 Brent Fox 2001-01-18 15:09:51 UTC 
Great!  This issue has already been fixed.  Resolving as rawhide.
Comment 8 Brock Organ 2001-02-20 19:22:25 UTC 
abrown verified the fix ...