Re: toshiba video problem
On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:09:57 -0400
Noah Sombrero <fedora@fea.st> wrote:
> Finally, there is a caviat to all this. Laptops many times take a
> piece of motherboard ram for video ram, and larger resolutions take
> more video ram. That while debian appears to take another piece of
> ram for itself in a ramdisk.
Two thoughts here.
* As far as I know, the only RAM disk Debian uses routinely is the
initial ram disk, or initrd. Mine tend to run about 48 MB, although I
believe that is compressed. So that shouldn't be that big of a factor.
* I believe that by the time Linux is ready to launch anything using a
GUI other than the initial frame buffer it is done with and has
discarded the initrd.
* Can you limit the amount of RAM used for video in the BIOS?
> This laptop originally came with 500mb ram and that was fine with win
> xp. It now has 1.25 gb, and it is not enough for 1440x900 video and
> debian. Parts of the display start flashing as video and program
> usage start moving things around. And then debian dies. I was able
> to get it back using restore boot.
Odd. The OS should not be stepping on the video memory. Or vice versa.
>
> Yes, I have another gb of ram on the way. I hope that will be
> sufficient.
You will likely find it useful anyway. Good luck.
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