Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:56:32 +0200 | From | "J . A . Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: FW: UPDATE: Linux SLOW on Compaq Armada 110 PIII Speedstep |
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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.
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