Re: [Mesa3d-users] determining video memory

[Brian P. <br...@pr...>]

samuel wrote:
> 
> hey all,
> 
> Two things really, firstly what is the best strategy for determining how much video memory
> is present?
> 
> I experimented generating arbitarily large arrays of texture handles and then
> glTexImage2Ding each the maximum sized texture. I then called glAreTexturesResident for
> the array. It seems that in software mesa it allows more that 400mb of textures to be
> resident. With my voodoo2 with 8mb of video memory, allocating over 15mb of textures,
> still returned true for glAreTexturesResident, is this correct behaviour for mesa?

I think all of our DRI drivers return GL_TRUE for residency at this time.
That'll get fixed eventually.

-Brian