Need advice: Mobile ATI card with 'shared' memory - EXA performance?

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Dec 8 02:47:44 PST 2005


On Mer, 2005-12-07 at 20:13 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> I picked up a HP dv8040us last weekend, which has a Turion, and
> an ATI card with a novel (to me at least) feature.
> The BIOS offers the option of using dedicated video ram (128MB)
> _and_ the option of also using up to an additional 256MB of system RAM.

The SiS6326 supported this way back when, let you put textures, and many
other video objects into system ram 8)

Alan




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