Re: Stolen Memory <- i830M video chip

Blue Lang (blue@b-side.org)
Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:29:51 -0400 (EDT)


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,

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