* Re: "assumed" graphic card memory
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@ 2006-07-13 15:10 ` Molle Bestefich
2006-07-13 15:20 ` Vijay Kiran Kamuju
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From: Molle Bestefich @ 2006-07-13 15:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: wine-devel; +Cc: linux-kernel
> I'd say it needs a framebuffer device which I do not have
Use the PCI variant ;-).
> Also, the PCI path varies a lot
Obviously. The correct PCI path would need to be found first.
(I used "lspci|grep VGA", hehe.)
> None of this works at all on non-Linux systems, for that matter.
> (Wine does run on non-Linux systems, in case you didn't realize that.)
Default to 64MB on those systems.
> This reports the wrong values for me in
> one machine with a 32M video card:
> 134217728
Ok. Guess it's rubbish then, too bad.
Oh well.
> It might be possible to guesstimate the available memory:
> http://delphi3d.net/articles/viewarticle.php?article=texman.htm
Promising!
But perhaps an easier approach would be to fix every Linux driver
to report the correct number in sysfs. I'm pretty sure each driver
knows how much RAM is on the card already, so it should be trivial..
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2006-07-13 15:10 ` "assumed" graphic card memory Molle Bestefich
@ 2006-07-13 15:20 ` Vijay Kiran Kamuju
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From: Vijay Kiran Kamuju @ 2006-07-13 15:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Molle Bestefich; +Cc: wine-devel, linux-kernel
May be using we can use the internals of lspci and pciutils.
So that we can calculate the VGA memory on the fly.
On 7/13/06, Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd say it needs a framebuffer device which I do not have
>
> Use the PCI variant ;-).
>
> > Also, the PCI path varies a lot
>
> Obviously. The correct PCI path would need to be found first.
>
> (I used "lspci|grep VGA", hehe.)
>
> > None of this works at all on non-Linux systems, for that matter.
> > (Wine does run on non-Linux systems, in case you didn't realize that.)
>
> Default to 64MB on those systems.
>
> > This reports the wrong values for me in
> > one machine with a 32M video card:
> > 134217728
>
> Ok. Guess it's rubbish then, too bad.
> Oh well.
>
> > It might be possible to guesstimate the available memory:
> > http://delphi3d.net/articles/viewarticle.php?article=texman.htm
>
> Promising!
>
> But perhaps an easier approach would be to fix every Linux driver
> to report the correct number in sysfs. I'm pretty sure each driver
> knows how much RAM is on the card already, so it should be trivial..
>
>
>
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