[plug] Dell 9400

[Gregory Orange]

Alex Nordstrom wrote:
> Tuesday, 2 May 2006 09:08, Adam Hewitt wrote:
>>> Oh, 1 other 'bad' thing - the video card is meant to be an x1400
>>> with 256M hypermemory (whatever that is), but the bios says its a 
>>> 128M card.
>> I think you will find that this means that you can use system memory
>> to use as video memory, so if you had a Windows install with the
>> proper drivers and software you could adjust the amount of memory to
>> assign to the video card.
> 
> You shouldn't have to use an inferior operating system just to be able 
> to set the amount of RAM used by the card. Xorg should let you set it 
> through the VideoRam item in the Device section for your card.
> 

In the past I've only ever seen shared video and system memory 
allocation done in the BIOS. Neat idea doing it in the OS though - no 
reboots (:

Drool, UXGA - can you read anything without a magnifying glass though?