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 _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
