[openbeos] Re: intel steals RAM (Re: New Haiku installation on HW)

  • From: "Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:01:34 -0700

On 23/03/2008, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > I haven't needed to alter any settings - other than to set the video
>  > ram "stolen" in the bios to 8mb - when it was set to 1mb, the video
>  > was all scrambled when Haiku got to the desktop (I'm guessing that
>  > the
>  > intel_extreme driver doesn't yet know how to grab its own memory for
>  > this chipset)
>
>  That might depend on the chipset. When did you test this? I currently
>  don't remember if I implemented that correctly for the 82865G already
>  or not :-)

Only recently - I haven't seen any commits that would suggest you've
altered anything.

In any case, it's working OK ATM - so I'm in no rush for a fix :)
(although, doesn't look like I have working overlay on this chip yet).

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