[Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [linux-fbdev] aty fb

[James S. <jsi...@li...>]

>I'm having some difficulties with the ATYFB driver. It breaks the TV
>tuner functionality of my All-In-Wonder PRO video card. The problem is
>that it uses all the available video RAM and doesn't leave ANY for the
>required video overlay. I was wondering if there was any way that I could
>force it to reserve a little memory.

Try using fbset to change the virtual y resolution (i.e fbset -vyres 640).
See the fbset man pages. By default fbdev drivers use all the video memory
they can to perform scrolling. You can change this behavior.

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