On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, GoTaR wrote:

> 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.

   You can't do that.  Not only would you not want to do that 
because of the horrible performance reading from video ram, NVIDIA
hardware has critical state stored in videoram.  The chip will
hang if it gets corrupted.


                Mark.   

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