Makis Marmaridis wrote:

> This behaviour (having to set the total memory to a meg less than the
> actual) is specific to your motherboard chipset as it reserves 1 megabyte of
> the system RAM for use by the video display.
> 
> I have seen the mem parameter normally working by using the full amount of
> physical memory (except of course in the case of i810 chipsets!).

Thanks for the info. What confused me is that the chipset is rated for
4MB video memory, but it's only remapping 1MB. I guess I'm going to have
to download a data sheet and find out how this thing really works.

- Jeff

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