Re: vesa & v2.1.109
Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech-lists@twilight.ucw.cz)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:33:38 +0200
On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 03:35:47PM -0400, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Joseph Malicki wrote:
>
> > There should be an option in your BIOS to enable 15-16MB memory hole,
> > or something similar.... enable this and you should be okay, but I don't
> > know how well linux likes it..... it may require options to linux kernel or
> > a patch....
>
> Ah, I have this option in the BIOS; never knew one could use it to bypass
> this problem. I did read something about a patch for the kernel to allow
> it to configure itself around the "memory hole" - can anyone give info on
> this? Also does this means I lose a meg of memory or will this missing meg
> of memory be remapped onto the top of the memory map?
>
> Thanks for the tips, I'll look into it tonight if someone can point me at
> the info for Linux to map itself around the "hole".
Well, you can't use it, since the card maps itself from 14 to 16, and the
hole is only from 15 to 16 ... so it doesn't work. I tried it when I had
a GD5428 ...
Vojtech
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