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Re: Can't type in X



On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Armin Wegner wrote:

wegner >On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 09:13:19AM -0700, Raphael Clancy wrote:
wegner >> Here's my sad story.....
wegner >> 
wegner >> To start, I have the worst video card ever... It's based on SiS 530 chipset. It's built on to the mother board oad uses 8 megs of system memory for graphics, of course it uses the first 8 megs, so any calls to memory have to be routed around the graphics, which is slooow.

you may have better performance if you set that memory aside, by adding
the
append="XXM"

to lilo.conf where XX is <total system memory> - 8MB

assuming you havent done so already. this might speed things up i dont
have such a chipset but i can imagine situations where it would.

nate

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