about video memory detection in wine

[King InuYasha]

This seems like the wrong way to go. I'm wondering if there is another way
to detect VRAM? There should be a way to determine VRAM from Xorg? Why
should OpenGL or DirectDraw be the method that Wine uses to determine video
RAM? Why should Wine have a fixed value based on a list? Maybe I'm being
stupid, but I think it would make sense for the display server (xorg) to
know how much VRAM a graphics card has...

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Jesse Allen <the3dfxdude at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Stefan Dösinger<stefandoesinger at gmx.at>
> wrote:
> > Am Friday 14 August 2009 18:01:07 schrieb Sun, Sunny:
> >> +        if(gl_info->vidmem < 64 * 1024 * 1024)
> >> +            gl_info->vidmem = 64 * 1024 * 1024;
> > I guess the idea is that no ATI card that was ever supported on fglrx has
> less
> > than 64 mb of memory? My old radeon 9000, which isn't supported by fglrx
> > since years now has 64 MB. Does this hold true for radeon 8500 cards too?
> >
> > I think I'll use the guessed amount of vidmem in this case instead of
> > hardcoding 64 MB.
> >
> > Using the undocumented value and the check for older drivers which don't
> > support it is a bit hacky, but its a well-isolated hack and avoids a lot
> of
> > problems, so it should be ok.
> >
> >
> >
>
> My Radeon 9200 has 128 MB.  But I've never used fglrx on it either, so
> I don't know what this gains.
>
>
>
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