Re: [LI] 3dLabs Permedia...

["Rajeev B.S.Rao" <rajeevr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Sunit Mathur wrote:

> Hi Everybody,
> 
>     I have a 3 D accelerator card (3D Labs Permedia 2) with 8 MB RAM and TI
> Clock Chip. I had upgraded my system from RHL 5.2 to RHL 6.1 and the card was
> autodetected and worked perfectly. Now I have changed my Hard Drive and have
> installed RHL 6.1 from the PCQ CD. While installing the card is detected
> correctly, but the VRAM is detected as 512 KB only. What could the problem be?
> I am unable to get more than 800X600 at 8-bit depth. (There is no problem with
> the card because I have tested the same on a windoze machine and it works
> properly)
> Has anybody used the same card ?
Well I've got a creative GB Exxtreme, which is a permedia 2 with 4mb ram,
don't know what clock chip. But It too has ram detection problems. Do not
probe your card at any point in Xconfigurator. Specify the ram yourself,
and it should work ok.

Rajeev


>
 All pointers welcome :-)
> 
> Regards
> Sunit Mathur
> 
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