Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 63273
missing VideoRam line in /etc/X11/XF86Config*
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:41:54 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18-dsp1 i686) Description of problem: Xconfigurator puts "VideoRam" line commented out in 'Section "Device"' in file /etc/X11/XF86Config and not at all in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. 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. anaconda has a similar issue, which I've already logged as #63265. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run Xconfigurator 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 refuses to do a mode higher than 1152x864x24, because it assumes 4MB of video RAM unless told otherwise. Expected Results: If XFree86 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 worked in the past for broken Matrox hardware. Should still work, but if not, it is something that can be considered for future releases. Ultimately, it is broken hardware, and not a software bug, so it is not high priority. Since there are config tool changes upcoming, it can be looked at again during toolchange for a future release.
Reassigning to new X config tool for potential future consideration. Matrox older hardware still isn't detectable, so I'm not sure what if anything can be done here really.
This is already settable with redhat-config-xfree86.