Re: toshiba video problem
On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 02:50:01 +0200, Charles Curley
<charlescurley@charlescurley.com> wrote:
>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.
Ok.
>* Can you limit the amount of RAM used for video in the BIOS?
Cannot. I see that this old p4 cpu can be split into 2 logical cpu's.
Would this be an advantage? It is enabled.
>> 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.
Everything is ok until I load a program of any size, pan, kmail,
thunderbird, worker file manager. Worker immediately freezes up
debian. This was not true at 1024x768.
>>
>> 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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Noah Sombrero
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