I have another system with a SiS530 on board, and when I insert a PCI
video card and selec video card as pci, it should disable the on board
video, windoze is able to use full ram, but linux has toble doing it, and
autodetects only MEM-2M.
All video output is sent to the pci video card.
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Jurjen Oskam wrote:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]:
> Unknown device 6306 (rev a2)
>
> This device uses system memory for video purposes.
>
> Memory: 28336k/30720k available (1236k kernel code, 408k reserved,
> 680k data, 60k init, 0k bigmem)
>
> I have a 32 MB DIMM in there. Since that machine is a server, I really
> don't need the video. Is there a way to disable that video card and
> reclaim that RAM for 'normal' use? Or to let it use only a tiny amount
> and just use textmode?
>
> In the BIOS it's possible to select the amount of RAM that the video
> chip takes. 2MB is the lowest setting.
>
> If more info about the machine is needed, I'd be happy to supply it.
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