diff --git a/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/graphics/via/UPDATE.html b/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/graphics/via/UPDATE.html
index b08e8e65fd..733ea9c426 100644
--- a/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/graphics/via/UPDATE.html
+++ b/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/graphics/via/UPDATE.html
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 </head>
 <body>
 <p><h2>Changes done for each driverversion:</h2></p>
-<p><h1>via_driver (SVN 0.11, Rudolf)</h1></p>
+<p><h1>via_driver (SVN 0.12, Rudolf)</h1></p>
 <ul>
 	<li>Initial setup based on nVidia driver 0.30;
 	<li>Kerneldriver uses MTR-WC mapping where available;
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 </ul>
 <p><h1>Still todo:</h1></p>
 <ul>
-	<li>Video overlay;
+	<li>Video overlay (in progress);
 	<li>2D acceleration;
 	<li>And yet more could be done.
 </ul>
@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@
 <hr><br>
 <br>
 <a href="mailto:info.be-hold@inter.nl.net">Rudolf Cornelissen.</a>
-<p>(Page last updated on September 15, 2005)</p>
+<p>(Page last updated on September 17, 2005)</p>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/graphics/via/driver.c b/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/graphics/via/driver.c
index 2334651c19..7cb40b9c40 100644
--- a/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/graphics/via/driver.c
+++ b/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/graphics/via/driver.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 	Other authors:
 	Mark Watson;
-	Rudolf Cornelissen 3/2002-11/2004.
+	Rudolf Cornelissen 3/2002-9/2005.
 */
 
 /* standard kernel driver stuff */
@@ -670,29 +670,8 @@ static status_t open_hook (const char* name, uint32 flags, void** cookie) {
 	si->device = di->pcii.device;
 	si->function = di->pcii.function;
 
-	/* note the amount of system RAM the system BIOS assigned to the card if applicable:
-	 * unified memory architecture (UMA) */
-	switch ((((uint32)(si->device_id)) << 16) | si->vendor_id)
-	{
-	case 0x01a010de: /* Nvidia GeForce2 Integrated GPU */
-		/* device at bus #0, device #0, function #1 holds value at byte-index 0x7C */
-		si->ps.memory_size = 1024 * 1024 *
-			(((((*pci_bus->read_pci_config)(0, 0, 1, 0x7c, 4)) & 0x000007c0) >> 6) + 1);
-		/* last 64kB RAM is used for the BIOS (or something else?) */
-		si->ps.memory_size -= (64 * 1024);
-		break;
-	case 0x01f010de: /* Nvidia GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU */
-		/* device at bus #0, device #0, function #1 holds value at byte-index 0x84 */
-		si->ps.memory_size = 1024 * 1024 *
-			(((((*pci_bus->read_pci_config)(0, 0, 1, 0x84, 4)) & 0x000007f0) >> 4) + 1);
-		/* last 64kB RAM is used for the BIOS (or something else?) */
-		si->ps.memory_size -= (64 * 1024);
-		break;
-	default:
-		/* all other cards have own RAM: the amount of which is determined in the
-		 * accelerant. */
-		break;
-	}
+	/* device at bus #0, device #0, function #0 holds byte value at byte-index 0xf6 */
+	si->ps.chip_rev = ((*pci_bus->read_pci_config)(0, 0, 0, 0xf6, 1));
 
 	/* map the device */
 	result = map_device(di);
