On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:09:57 -0400 Noah Sombrero <fed...@fea.st> wrote:
> Finally, there is a caviat to all this. Laptops many times take a > piece of motherboard ram for video ram, and larger resolutions take > more video ram. That while debian appears to take another piece of > ram for itself in a ramdisk. Two thoughts here. * As far as I know, the only RAM disk Debian uses routinely is the initial ram disk, or initrd. Mine tend to run about 48 MB, although I believe that is compressed. So that shouldn't be that big of a factor. * I believe that by the time Linux is ready to launch anything using a GUI other than the initial frame buffer it is done with and has discarded the initrd. * Can you limit the amount of RAM used for video in the BIOS? > This laptop originally came with 500mb ram and that was fine with win > xp. It now has 1.25 gb, and it is not enough for 1440x900 video and > debian. Parts of the display start flashing as video and program > usage start moving things around. And then debian dies. I was able > to get it back using restore boot. Odd. The OS should not be stepping on the video memory. Or vice versa. > > Yes, I have another gb of ram on the way. I hope that will be > sufficient. You will likely find it useful anyway. Good luck. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
