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el3ktro
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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Location: Cologne, Germany
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 Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:12 pm Post subject: Intel GMA 950 using 224 MB of my RAM |
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Hello,
I have a Centrino laptop with the Intel GMA 950 graphics onboard. The specs say that it can use a maximum of 224 MB RAM as video memory - and it DOES use 224 MB of my RAM for video, although I'm not gaming at all and I think 32 MB or 64 MB would absolutely be enough. Unfortunately there are no BIOS settings at all for this - so is there a way to somehow tell the driver (i810) to use less memory? Is there a xorg.conf option for that, or something in the /proc filesystem that I can tune?
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tony
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Joined: 03 Aug 2006
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Location: Frederick, MD
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Hello, I have a very similar card to yours and I find that changing the VideoRam section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf seems to do the trick just fine. The value should be the number of k that you want the video card to steal from main memory (number of megs * 1024) which in your case might look something like this:
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Section "Device"
Identifier "Video0"
Driver "i810"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "945G/GZ Express Integrated Graphics Controller"
VideoRam 65536
Option "DRI" "true"
BusID "00:02:0"
EndSection
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Of course in my case I'm going the opposite way and I have it cranked up as high as it can go but, hey, to each his/her own 
Hope this helps! |
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