Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 18:45:50 +0200 From: yuri van Overmeeren <yuri.vanovermeeren@reston.demon.nl> To: jason@monsterjam.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: video memory on intel extreme graphics? Message-ID: <415EDB3E.4080408@reston.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <415ED2A0.3020800@reston.demon.nl> References: <20041002140232.GC84014@monsterjam.org> <415ED2A0.3020800@reston.demon.nl>
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yuri van Overmeeren wrote: > Jason wrote: > >> can someone explain this to me please >> >> from dmesg >> agp0: detected 8060k stolen memory >> agp0: aperture size is 128M >> >> so is my i810 video using 8meg or 128 meg or what? >> >> >> > Hi, > > The 128 Mb aperture is the maximum amount of system memory the AGP can > use as graphics memory, it's using 8Mb currently (but it can use 128 > Mb max). you can usually adjust aperture size in your bios. ehm no, that's not quite correct...it's using a maximum of 128 Mb of system memory as graphics memory as said before, AND 8 Mb of stolen memory (I think..., used as framebuffer?, to do all vga/vesa modes?) To be honest I read about the intel graphics and how they work...but can quite remember it (brain probably did not use enough stolen memory) -yuri
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