[PATCH] wined3d VideoRam registry setting

[Evil]

As someone stuck with both nVidia and ATI cards, I'd vote against using
NV-CONTROL.  Detecting the RAM for different manufacturers via different
methods sounds harder to maintain.

   (--) fglrx(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kByte, Type: DDR SGRAM / SDRAM


Roderick Colenbrander wrote:

>Parsing the X log file is way to hacky in my opinion to determine the amount
>of video memory. Depending on how many X servers you use it can be a
>different file. In case of nvidia videocards I would prefer to use the
>NV-CONTROL extension for X. (it is available on Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD) In
>other cases I would use the pci header of the videocard. A part of it
>contains what memory ranges are mapped and a part of it corresponds to the
>size which is mapped for the framebuffer. For instance 128MB on my system:
>
>0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV35 [GeForce FX
>5900] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 11
>        Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
>        Expansion ROM at dfee0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>        Capabilities: <available only to root>
>
>The only thing is that the pci header can't be thrusted in all cases but I
>would say it is a lot better than nothing.
>
>Regards,
>Roderick
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