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authorEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>2007-04-30 17:27:23 -0700
committerEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>2007-04-30 19:15:34 -0700
commit6748d620fbf39dd98982856c09256bdec0fc82a1 (patch)
treeca4789e47043c5656b4f336fee71611f7ad83bf5 /man
parenta4f1a7872f6f959bb4bc6568face710bee3589de (diff)
Ignore VideoRam now that its original purpose is obsolete.
It had been necessary to allow more than a small amount of memory to be allocated, but now those old small allocations people had configured are getting in the way.
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diff --git a/man/intel.man b/man/intel.man
index 178ff0a6..daf90307 100644
--- a/man/intel.man
+++ b/man/intel.man
@@ -43,17 +43,10 @@ NetBSD, and Solaris have such kernel drivers available.
By default, the i810 will use 8 megabytes
of system memory for graphics. For the 830M and later, the driver will
automatically size its memory allocation according to the features it will
-support. The amount of memory used may be limited by using the
+support. The
.B VideoRam
-entry in the config file
-.B "Device"
-section. Limiting the amount of memory used may result in features being
-disabled, so if you choose to configure it, it is advisable to check the
-__xservername__
-log file to see if any features have been disabled because of insufficient
-video memory. In particular, DRI support or tiling mode may be disabled
-with insufficient video memory. Either of these being disabled will
-reduce performance for 3D applications.
+option, which in the past had been necessary to allow more than some small
+amount of memory to be allocated, is now ignored.
.PP
The following driver
.B Options