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. =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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