Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> 
> 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


Umm I meant 64MB standard RAM and SIS AGP card configured through the
BIOS to use 8MB of standard RAM as video RAM.

As for Linux BIOS first hit on google -
http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/


Mithun

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