warning RAM

[Dennis Veatch]

On Monday 02 June 2003 05:14 pm, Enrico Pirani wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Dennis Veatch wrote:
> > On Monday 02 June 2003 04:17 pm, Enrico Pirani wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Enrico Pirani wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Enrico Pirani wrote:
> > > > > > > I'm using Slackware 9.0 with 1 GB ram. After checking the
> > > > > > > syslog I've noticed a waring message telling the kernel was
> > > > > > > using just 896 Mb ram.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Why?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What exactly does the warning look like?
> > > > >
> > > > > May 14 19:44:19 darkstar kernel: Warning only 896MB will be used
> > > > >
> > > > > >What kind of videcard do you
> > > > >
> > > > > Nvidia Ti4200 (128Mb)
> > > >
> > > > 128MB + 896MB = 1024MB (1GB).  That's your answer right there.  If
> > > > you don't like that, then you need to get a new videcard with its own
> > > > dedicatred memory.
> > >
> > > HA! HA! HA!
> > >
> > > Come on!, This video card doesn't share memory. It uses his own memory.
> >
> > Not true, depends on the chipset/mobo, reference (one amoung many);
> >
> > http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xb2703fd7f72ad611abd50
> >090277a778c,00.html
>
> Hey, look better:
>
> .....The 11mb shared memory is dynamically allocated... meaning the system
> will automatically allocated this memory from the ram when it is required.
> The 11mb comes from the system memory, so it robs the system of RAM. You
> most likely have an intel 81x series chipset inside your computer...
> bascially this means that you have no actualy video card, but your chipset
> contains graphics into the motherboard. The intel integrated....
>
> ----My card is  a PCI based video card equipped with 128Mb DDR-Ram.
>
> again look better:
>
> ......If you want to install a video card, you will have to install a PCI
> based
> video card, unless if you upgrade to a motherboard that contains an AGP
> slot. The PCI based video card will improve performance greatly, but it
> will still not be comparable to an AGP based video card. A popular video
> card that is in the PCI format is the ATI Radeon 32mb SDR. The problem is,
> ATI may have discontinued this card, so it may be hard to find..
>
> Enrico

My point was that some video cards (that is built ins) do use system ram. 
Anyway have you tried appending mem=xxxx to lilo or grub?

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