From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Daniel Harvey <daniel@amristar.com.au>
Cc: Daniel Harvey <daniel@amristar.com.au>,
Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>,
hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FW: UPDATE: Linux SLOW on Compaq Armada 110 PIII Speedstep
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:56:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010712235632.A24828@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NEBBJDBLILDEDGICHAGAKEAFCGAA.daniel@amristar.com.au> <NEBBJDBLILDEDGICHAGACEAGCGAA.daniel@amristar.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBJDBLILDEDGICHAGACEAGCGAA.daniel@amristar.com.au>; from daniel@amristar.com.au on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:48:57 +0200
On 20010712 Daniel Harvey wrote:
>Got an idea - the video card in the Compaq uses a piece of shared memory
>(between 2-8M).
>
>Would Linux be able to detect that?
>
The bios just tells linux it has less ram. I have a laptop with all SiS chips,
vga is a SiS630, and uses 8Mb added to its own 8Mb. Linux just thinks it has
120Mb of ram.
>> mem=250M - slow
>> mem=252M - slow
>> mem=256M - hangs on boot,
Do not know why it is slow, but it hangs because it is trying to use reserved video
mem.
--
J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you...
mailto:jamagallon@able.es
Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Cooker) for i586
Linux werewolf 2.4.6-ac2 #1 SMP Sun Jul 8 23:57:11 CEST 2001 i686
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-12 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20010712154739.A2877@weta.f00f.org>
2001-07-12 4:43 ` Daniel Harvey
2001-07-12 4:48 ` Daniel Harvey
2001-07-11 17:14 ` Chris Bacott
2001-07-12 5:59 ` Daniel Harvey
2001-07-12 4:52 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-07-12 21:56 ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
2001-07-12 6:01 Daniel Harvey
[not found] <NEBBJDBLILDEDGICHAGAOEAGCGAA.daniel@amristar.com.au>
2001-07-13 14:19 ` Chris Wedgwood
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