Re: [LIH] RH7.0 unable to detect 256 MB RAM

[Shridhar Daithankar]

Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:

> Are you using RAM for AGP ??? - if so you would have to subtract that
> much amount from 256. My 810 motherboard +64MB RAM with 8MB AGP shows 56
> MB in /proc/meminfo.


That's not 64MB VRAM. That's 64MB address space apperture. VRAM for a typical 
i810 board is 2MB. and linux manages it neatly. In free it will count only for 
126MB. So that's not needed. 255MB instead of 256MB is a hack to convince 
(idiot)motherboard.

Frankly I have some doubts regarding BIOS.

1)How much useful it's these days?
2)Why don't they burn a linux kernel in BIOS? It can do much better job and 
linux will have much better supprot for motherboards..

  Shridhar




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