Intel: Default for "Virtual"

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Sun Aug 26 12:54:33 PDT 2007


On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 18:40 +0200, Andreas Schildbach wrote:

> Why is that "maximum size" setting needed at all? 

The current driver cannot reallocate the frame buffer, so whatever size
you start with is the maximum the screen can ever become, and that this
amount of physical memory is tied down for the whole X server run.

Yes, we're hoping to fix this soon.

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keith.packard at intel.com
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