Greetings, I have acquired a mo/bo with a built-in video adapter. Being that I have 768 megs of ram, I _know_ I have plenty of memory to allot to video. BIOS doesn't pass this on to FreeBSD.
I have two choices for x. I can use the VESA standard or I can use the S3 video driver (both come up fine, but theres quit a bit of chop when it comes to video processing regardless of which I use). I'm bringing up VESA from the kernal and it's giving it 16 megs of ram. Where can I read up on, or how can I increase this allotment? As for the S3 video driver, do I allot the memory from the kernal or is this somehow set up from the x configuration file? (I'm running x.org, although that probably shouldn't matter being that they pretty much seem the same at this point). Applicable nfo as follows: (from dmesg -a) Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (1202.73-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x644 Stepping = 4 Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PA T,PSE36,MMX,FXSR> AMD Features=0xc0440000<RSVD,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!> real memory = 788463616 (769984K bytes) avail memory = 760496128 (742672K bytes) Preloaded elf module "vesa.ko" at 0xc066d140. ...snip... VESA: v3.0, 16384k memory, flags:0x1, mode table:0xc00c0e2a (c0000e2a) VESA: S3 Incorporated. Savage4 ...snip... agp0: <VIA 82C8363 (Apollo KT133A) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xd8000000-0xdbffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: <VIA 8363 (Apollo KT133) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 pci1: <S3 model 8a26 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 9 ...snip... sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 ...snip... (from /sys/i386/conf/WIZARD, comments removed for cleaner reading) cpu I686_CPU ident WIZARD maxusers 132 options CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK options CPU_ENABLE_SSE ...snip... options USER_LDT options SHMALL=32768 options SHMMAX=67108864 options VESA ...snip... device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100 device vga0 at isa? device agp ...snip... From what I've read on it, I can tell you that I'm completely lost when it comes to shared memory (and reading more seems to confuse me more). I simply don't understand how it works. Of course, I know that built in video is recommended against (regardless of what OS is running), but I'm sure there's a way to up the memory... And I hope that theres a place that explains how it works in laymens terms? :) So far, I've re-read the manual on setting up x, for setting up video applications, various video app manuals, LINT, and many googles on shared memory. Mayhaps there's a man page I'm missing that puts all this stuff in perspective? If not, someone explain it so I can write one. :) Thanks. Mike _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
