Misreported VRAM

[Mike Lothian]

2009/12/7 Jerome Glisse <glisse at freedesktop.org>:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 06:54:13PM +0000, Mike Lothian wrote:
>> I have a Radeon 4650 (RV730) :
>>
>>  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc RV730
>> PRO [Radeon HD 4650] [1002:9498]
>>
>> This should have 1GB DDR2 VRAM on board however my dmesg states differently
>
> So far we don't use VRAM beyond PCI aperture which is 256M on your
> system. I am planing on adding support for unvisible ram this week.
>
> Note that i don't think we have a driver which can take advantage
> of such amount of VRAM yet, except if you are driving 2 30" screen.
>
> Cheers,
> Jerome
>

Ah ok

Maybe a wee line saying this in the dmesg would stop others from
reporting this if they ever notice it

Cheers

Mike