All,
I've got an ASUS TUSL-2 Mobo with the i815 onboard video chipset.
Mandrake detects and runs it without a hitch. But in my often vain
attempts to figure out why it "freezes' or suddenly drops out
(especially after a long period of non use.) I found out that it's only
being allocated 16megs of ram. Now according to the manual it can
share up to 64 megs. I've got 384 megs on the box so, per the manual, I
set the video ram at 64 megs, in BIOS. No other settings are available
there. But it still shares only 16 megs (Note it was set to 64 during
install and I couldn't find a place to set anything different, even in
MCC.) I checked the XF86Config-4 file (running 4.2.0 XFree86 with
video acceleration ) and under display VideoRam is commented out. When
I set this to 65536 I can no longer boot into X ..... I then tried
setting it to 32 megs in BIOS and in the XF86Config-4 ... same results.
I then just for kicks tried to set it to 16 ... same results. Only when
it is commeted out can I boot to X. How do I correctly pass to X the
fact that it should use a larger Video RAM setting, or is this hard
coded?
Thanks,
James
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