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Vesa LFB memory area size

Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 10:59 am
by micron
Is there a way to determine the size of Vesa LFB physical memory usage ?
To my understanding atleast some graphics cards use more than (scanline*Yresolution) of physical memory.
Vesa info block has offscreenmemoffset and offscreenmemsize variables,
which in vbe 3.0 seem to be (always?) set to zero ?

Re: Vesa LFB memory area size

Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 11:29 am
by bluemoon
You can get such information from PCI BAR of the display card (if it is not too ancient and support PCI).