On Thursday 28 October 2004 12:39 pm, Chuck Swiger proclaimed: > Mike Hauber wrote: > > 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'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? > > I think you have an integrated video controller which > uses main memory rather than having it's own dedicated > VRAM. Look for an option in your BIOS config to adjust > the size of the frame buffer. > > You should adjust the amount of memory reserved for video > to enough to handle whatever screen depth you want to run > at, there isn't much point to allocating any more.
Whoa. I thought I had tried that, but apparently I didn't (or at least I couldn't have saved before restarting). Sorry. FreeBSD _does_ respect the allotment. Thanks. That's what I needed (besides a break). Regards, Mike _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
