Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:20:06 -0400 | From | "Vijay Kiran Kamuju" <> | Subject | Re: "assumed" graphic card memory |
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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.. > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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