Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

[Mark Shields <laebshade@gmail.com>]

I'm fairly sure those options are disabled by default (I think).  No
way to check from my work though (ssh-enabled BIOS, or BIOS
configurable from linux, would be nice).

On 7/24/05, Colin <signofzeta@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>

> Modern operating system like Linux 2.6 and WinXP bypass the BIOS
> after the initial bootup, so caching the system/video BIOSes is just
> a waste of memory if you're using Gentoo.  Caching video RAM was nice
> back in the days of ISA video cards, but with PCI/AGP/PCI-X video
> cards, shut off that option.
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> Colin
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