On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 16:51:33 -0500, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > I want to reduce memory being used in order to use the rest as a > > ramdisk. > > I don't understand that. What does reducing the amount of > videoram have to do with a ramdisk?
Ramdisk located in video ram would be overwritten if something else (in ths case - X) use this video ram. I thought the idea up and Michal Schulz gave the solution and detailed description, which you can find at: http://hedera.linuxnews.pl/_news/2002/09/03/_long/1445.html Caution in 5th point misses the true in the last sentence. Is there another way to say to X not to touch specified region of video memory? > I see no reason to force VideoRam to lower than what there > actually is, As you can see it's good solution for limited memory systems with modern graphics adapters (up to 128MB of VRAM). > but if you do it's possible that something in > core XFree86 code requires it to be a power of two. Write combine > ranges can only be setup on power of two apertures. I've tried 16384, 8192 and 4096 - these are powers of 2. > Nothing in the "nv" driver has changed in this respect. So where's the bug? Reducing works with tseng driver on my second video board - ET6100. -- GoTaR <priv0.onet.pl->gotar> PLD stuff at http://mops.uci.agh.edu.pl/~gotar/ _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
