shared memory

[Mike Hauber]

On Thursday 28 October 2004 12:39 pm, Chuck Swiger 
proclaimed:
> 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.

Whoa.  I thought I had tried that, but apparently I didn't 
(or at least I couldn't have saved before restarting).  
Sorry.  FreeBSD _does_ respect the allotment.

Thanks.  That's what I needed (besides a break).

Regards,

Mike