109023 – Patch 1214 of the X.org package disables videoram override for wrong reasons

Bug 109023 - Patch 1214 of the X.org package disables videoram override for wrong reasons

Summary: Patch 1214 of the X.org package disables videoram override for wrong reasons

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers

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Reported:	2005-10-12 09:21 UTC by Luis Felipe
Modified:	2005-10-12 11:20 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Luis Felipe 2005-10-12 09:21:20 UTC

Well, patch 1214 of the xorg-x11 package basically makes you unable
to alter how much videoram your card has because the people at redhat
were having too much problems with users setting wrong values. 
But should this be the case here ?

I heard the patch might have other reasons to exist, but I'm not sure,
so I decided to bring this under attention.


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-12 10:46:28 UTC

The setting has no good reason to exist on the radeon driver, because all known
cards are correctly detected. Its only purpose seems to be breaking configurations.

If you actually have a case of a card where it's incorrect and no greater than
128MB, then a bug should be filed with X.Org.

Comment 2 Luis Felipe 2005-10-12 11:18:00 UTC

Why no greater than 128 mb ??? I tried to find information on this and
couldn't.

Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-12 11:20:09 UTC

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13343102