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Re: nknbi-linux --append




Ken Yap writes:
| 
| >I've got a 128 MB dless-workstation and the AGP-Aperture is set to 64 MB
| >by default.
| >Since it did not detect all 128 MB but 64 MB I added mem=128M to the
| >append
| >line. Then linux works fine. But I sometimes have strange effects with
| >my AGP-Card...
| >What does AGP-Aperture mean and to what value should I set it?
| 
| Don't know but I've heard that some video cards don't have memory but
| work off the CPU's main memory to save money.

The Cyrix Media GX line is like this.  They have a built in VGA mode
that allocates some of the system memory as video memory.  This was to
help get PC's under $500 a couple of years ago.

Doug A.
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