Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 140844
Display Settings Does not Allow for VideoRam Configuration
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:55 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: The video chip vendor (VIA) documentation recommends the setting of the xorg.conf video driver parameter VideoRam in order to take advantage of Shared RAM that is available on the Motherboard. My MSI KM3M-V motherboard can support up to 64MB. When selecting my video driver (VESA (Generic), or S3 Unichrome) using the system-config-display panel, it does not include any fields for assigning values to this configuration parameter. VIA literature demonstrates the setting of this value on an older version of Redhat, probably in the installation process. I have manually set this value in the xorg.conf file to the following value (for 32MB): VideoRam 32768 in order to take advantage of the 32MB Shared RAM setting on the BIOS. Needless to say, video performance has improved significantly. Please make this setting available in the Display Settings panel. Thanks. Greg Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.0.24-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the Display Settings panel 2. Click on the Hardware Tab 3. Click on the Configure button for the Video Card 4. Select the desired Driver, then click OK. Actual Results: The driver is selected, but there are no fields available for more detailed driver settings. Expected Results: Fields should appear for more specific configuration options, such as using Shared RAM for the video driver. Additional info: To my recollection, detailed driver settings such as this were available in Redhat9.
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
Closing per lack of response to previous request for information. This bug was originally filed against a much earlier version of Fedora Core, and significant changes have taken place since the last version for which this bug is confirmed. Note that FC3 and FC4 are supported by Fedora Legacy for security fixes only. Please install a still supported version and retest. If it still occurs on FC5 or FC6, please reopen and assign to the correct version. Otherwise, if this a security issue, please change the product to Fedora Legacy. Thanks, and we are sorry that we did not get to this bug earlier.