[NCLUG] DRI...

Jeff fetushead at attbi.com
Tue Jun 3 11:31:04 MDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 11:20, Benson Chow wrote:

> How much ram do you have dedicated to video memory?  I suppose I could
> dedicate some more so I could get 24bpp (the laptop probably has more
> physmem than I really need) but I have no idea how to as there's not even
> a bios setting to do so.  Thought that AGP GART should be able to
> dynamically allocate more RAM.  Maybe 4.3 and a new GART driver will
> fix this.

Have you tried specifying the amount of ram you want in your XF86Config
?  You should be able to statically tell it how much ram it has (as long
as you don't go over the i830's limit - I think it's 11 or 13 MB, but I
could be thinking of the i810)...

-Jeff




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