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> there. The screen refresh rate is set lower than I normally have it in
> winblows, and if I try to increase it xvidtune tells me that my hardware
> doesn't support the mode I've chosen. However, it runs fine with lower
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Q: What lets xvidtune know what the hardware limits are ?
A: It's the XFree86 configuration file; it contains a section
where upper and lower bounds for hsync and vsync are defined.
This is freely configurable (at your monitor's risk, of course)
to get fewer complaints from the X server and xvidtune.
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> Now, Out of X, linux seems to be only recognizing 64 megs of ram, when
> in actuality I have 96. It hasn't made a significant decrease in
> performance, but still it would be nice to have the extra ram. How can
> I fix that?
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In case your RAM exceeds 64M you have to tell the kernel the actual
RAM size before it is started.
This is done with a kernel commandline par "mem=96m".
For example if you boot using LILO you should add the line
append "mem=96m"
to the image section belonging to your linux kernel in
"/etc/lilo.conf" and run lilo.
(cf. the boot-prompt HOWTO (below /usr/doc/ ) and the very good doc
that comes with LILO)
regards, Markus
Markus Stausberg
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