Howto limit agp aperture size?

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Sun Apr 4 01:42:53 PDT 2010


On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way, to limit agp aperture size, maybe by passing a
> parameter to the agpgart module?
> The bios doesn't provide any setting unfourtunatly :/
>
> Background: I am using a quite old version of nouveau (that one
> shipped with Fedora-11), and nouveau seems to reserve the whole apg
> aperture (256mb) instead of using it on-demand. That means half of the
> system's ram is statically dedicated to nouveau.

Don't think any version of nouveau ever did that. Are you sure its actually
allocated the RAM?

Dave.

>
> Thank you in advance, Clemens
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