Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:04:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:04:46 -0400 Received: from www.soccerchix.org ([64.23.60.113]:30730 "EHLO gib.soccerchix.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:04:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:29:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Blue Lang To: Michael De Nil cc: Linux Kernel Mailinglist Subject: Re: Stolen Memory <- i830M video chip In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Michael De Nil wrote: > i searched on the intel-website, which told me hat i should be able to > change this setting in my bios. *not* > > can't i reserve any more ram myselve by selecting linux only to use 256 - > 8 Meg or something @ boot-time ? the dell c400 has this same problem. there is an excellent web page on one person's experiences with it, but i can't find it right now.. anyways, his result was that the bios was actually broken and that it would take a f/w update from Dell to fix it. a little googling should yield the results you want. i assume it's probably the same situation with your laptop. good luck, -- Blue Lang http://www.b-side.org/~blue editor, b-side.org http://www.b-side.org bug generation unit, alanthia mud alanthia.org 1536 integration engineer, veritas software http://www.veritas.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/