From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18-dsp1 i686) Description of problem: anaconda doesn't put "VideoRam" line in 'Section "Device"' in file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. (It does for /tmp/XF86Config.test and /etc/X11/XF86Config.) This is a problem for me, because I use 8MB Matrox Millennium II cards, for which XFree86 is unable to probe the video RAM size due to a hardware bug and defaults to 4MB. Even though I specify 8MB, if the setting doesn't get saved into the configuration file, I am unable to use the higher-resolution modes with this card unless I manually edit the configuration file, which many users wouldn't know to do. Xconfigurator has a similar issue, and I'll log a defect against it too. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install on a machine with an 8MB Matrox Millennium video card. 2. Specify 8MB video RAM and a video mode that requires that much RAM, such as 1280x1024x24. Actual Results: XFree86 4.x refuses to do a mode higher than 1152x864x24, because it assumes 4MB of video RAM unless told otherwise. Expected Results: If XFree86 4.x had been told that there was 8MB video RAM, then it would have used the higher-resolution mode that I selected, such as 1280x1024x24. Additional info:
This is because the general case is that setting the video ram explicitly for XFree 4 is the wrong thing to do and there's no real way to know what the few exceptions are that need it written out.