Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3156 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

On 2007/12/01 01:30 (GMT-0500) Clark P. Case apparently typed:

> I have a system (and 3 other identical ones) that uses a Tyan S2098AGN
> motherboard, 2.1GHZ Celeron w/512MB ram. I have been running openSuse
> 10.0 to 10.2 without issues. The board has integrated video but only
> allows up to 8MB of the ram to be shared.

Why do you think this is a problem? Is this a BIOS option? I have a Celeron
2.4G test box with the same chipset:
http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/va/index.htm

Its BIOS offers a Frame Buffer Size selection of 512k, 1M & 8M. IIRC, the
Intel Xorg video drivers aren't bothered by this seeming limitation. They
have their own formula for deciding how much system RAM to use. I got SUSE
Factory v10.3 installed on it running 24 bit 2048x1536 in Sept. or Oct., and
Mandriva 2008. The latter's GUI installer wouldn't run on it, but it works
dandy after having used the text installer.

If you try using the integrated video and still can't get an installer to
work, check to see if you have the latest MB BIOS. A newer one helped with
framebuffer problems on mine.
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