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Re: nknbi-linux --append




Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> wrote:

> The Cyrix Media GX line is like this.  They have a built in VGA mode
> that allocates some of the system memory as video memory.  This was to
> help get PC's under $500 a couple of years ago.

Yep but that depends on the BIOS implementation of the VGA aperture. I have
an Advantech PCM-5820E board here, with max 128M on an SO-DIMM. The VGA mem
is taken from the top of physical mem. So if it were as you describe it
_should_ be documented. 

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