On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 08:03 -0800, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > Hello all, > > I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI chip > with a measly 2MB of video RAM. This is enough for me > to run X with a resolution of 800x600, but no more. > I'd like to try to push it to a higher resolution, but > the Xserver complains that it doesn't have enough > memory and drops down to 800x600. > > lspci reports this for my chipset: [snip] > So I'd like to allocate some RAM to Video. I tried > entering that option in XF86Config-4, as follows: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D > Rage Pro AGP 1X" > Driver "ati" > VideoRam 32768 > EndSection > > That had no effect. top still reports all of my RAM, > and the Xserver won't go above 800x600. > > My BIOS has no discernible way to force RAM to video. > Anyone have any thoughts or clues? Yes: you can't do that! You *could*, though, buy a new AGP video card for your Aptiva (as long as it is compatible with AGP 1x). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep." Dorothy Eden
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