From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 16:39:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F68516A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:39:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D5843D3F for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:39:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-246-51.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.246.51]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9SGdZu5058332 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:39:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <418120C6.6070407@mac.com> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:39:34 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: m.hauber@mchsi.com References: <200410281127.30511.m.hauber@mchsi.com> In-Reply-To: <200410281127.30511.m.hauber@mchsi.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.6 required=5.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shared memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:39:42 -0000 Mike Hauber wrote: > I have acquired a mo/bo with a built-in video adapter. > Being that I have 768 megs of ram, I _know_ I have plenty > of memory to allot to video. BIOS doesn't pass this on to > FreeBSD. [ ... ] > I'm bringing up VESA from the kernal and it's giving it 16 > megs of ram. Where can I read up on, or how can I increase > this allotment? I think you have an integrated video controller which uses main memory rather than having it's own dedicated VRAM. Look for an option in your BIOS config to adjust the size of the frame buffer. You should adjust the amount of memory reserved for video to enough to handle whatever screen depth you want to run at, there isn't much point to allocating any more. -- -Chuck