On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:53:13PM -0500, parn wrote: > How do I control the amount of video that my card gets. dmesg says > that 320meg is for video. I dont want it that high. I read about > append = for lilo and was wondering how to place it in and how much > should be given. I have an i810 board w/700 celeron. Debian > testing/unstable w/ 2.4.9 going. would 16 meg for video be > sufficient? I dont use alot of video. Thanks to any that reply!
It depends on your screen size. If you are using just vertual character consoles as an server, it can be really small even with color. 80 char * 25 raws * 8 bit color = 2 K Byte (Good old super VGA card) Even if you run X with XGA resolution (1024 X 768 X 32 bit color), 4MB is more than enough. (4 x 1024 x 1024 > 1024 x 768 x 32 /8 ) Good luck :-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
