Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:46:30 +0200 | From | Gabriel C <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3 |
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Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Mika Fischer wrote: >> > Hi Ingo, >> > >> > I'm having the same problem. >> > >> > Ingo Molnar schrieb: >> >> excellent. So just to make sure: this box never had proper graphics >> >> under Linux (under no previous kernel), due to the way the BIOS has set >> >> up the MTRR's, right? >> > >> > Well, not quite. X still works fine, but since the video memory is >> > overlapped by two of the existing MTRRs, X cannot add a write-combining >> > range for the video memory. That makes X rather slow especially if you >> > use DRI for Compiz etc. >> >> Well you are lucky then :) >> >> Yeah X 'worked' but it worked as slow as with vesa video driver here. >> >> Also starting something like supertuxkart made it crash or I got a black screen :( >> >> The only game I managed to start ( without X to crash ) without that patch was supertux but is was slow as hell. >> However I'm not a gamer but I need X to work right. >> > or can you change graphics card memory in BIOS to some big like 256M > instead of 64M? >
It is set to 256M , I cannot even set it to 64MB in BIOS. I have options for 128/256 MB only and I think I can change the mode to fixed.
> YH >
Gabriel
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