On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 09:26 -0800, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > --- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 08:03 -0800, Ridge Chittenden > > wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI > > chip > > > with a measly 2MB of video RAM. This is enough for > > me > > > to run X with a resolution of 800x600, but no > > more. > > > I'd like to try to push it to a higher resolution, > > but > > > the Xserver complains that it doesn't have enough > > > memory and drops down to 800x600. > > > > > > lspci reports this for my chipset: > > [snip] > > > So I'd like to allocate some RAM to Video. I tried > > > entering that option in XF86Config-4, as follows: > > > > > > Section "Device" > > > Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D > > > Rage Pro AGP 1X" > > > Driver "ati" > > > VideoRam 32768 > > > EndSection > > > > > > That had no effect. top still reports all of my > > RAM, > > > and the Xserver won't go above 800x600. > > > > > > My BIOS has no discernible way to force RAM to > > video. > > > Anyone have any thoughts or clues? > > > > Yes: you can't do that! You *could*, though, buy a > > new AGP video > > card for your Aptiva (as long as it is compatible > > with AGP 1x). > > Yuck! OK, thanks Ron. Unfortunately, this machine > (circa 1998) has only 1 PCI slot, which is occupied by > my wireless card. (The video is onboard.) Forgive my > ignorance, but would an ISA video card work?
> Perhaps it's time for a new machine (or at least a new
> motherboard...)
No PCI. Use AGP. Oh, wait a minute, "onboard ATI chip". Either
your system has variably-sized shared RAM (like you are trying to
make it do), or a fixed-size shared RAM , or that 2M RAM is it's
own entity.
> Perhaps it's time for a new machine (or at least a new
> motherboard...)
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