[ltp] Can I change Video Memory Setting on X60?

[Jeffrey Franc-Law]

My X60 with GM950 graphics does not appear to have a BIOS setting for
video memory.  Can I change the Video Memory settings?  I have 4gb ram,
but of course only 3GB shows due to the limitations of the 945gm
chipset.  Apparently (???) if I can map 1GB of memory to video RAM it
will use the upper 1GB that is not presently being used???

This is the bios memory map...
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 00000000000d4000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bf6d0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000bf6d0000 - 00000000bf6df000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000bf6df000 - 00000000bf700000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000bf700000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fed00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fed14000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)




This is all the info I can get about the Video (I don't know what it
means??)

vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xffffc20010100000, using
6144k, to
tal 7872k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=4
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0



Anybody tried this?  Owning an extra 1GB of ram that is not being used
is killing me!!

ciao,
jfl

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