how to increase video memory?

[kavinchat]

I am using ACER travelmate 5720 with intel T7500 processor.
as default only 8 MB is allocated to video memory.
how to increase this?

[Atom]

You will see an option to increase this in your BIOS. Change it there to a higher value. On my computer, I can't set it to more than 16MB

[waterhead]

For some Intel video chips, this is done automatically with agpgart. To see if your system is doing this, use this command.

dmesg | grep agpgart

Now, my laptop is somewhat old, but this is what I get.

$ dmesg | grep agpgart
Linux agpgart interface v0.103
agpgart: Detected an Intel 855GM Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 892K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000

[kavinchat]

You will see an option to increase this in your BIOS. Change it there to a higher value. On my computer, I can't set it to more than 16MB

I checked in BIOS already. There i hv option only to view the allocated memory. Not able to change that. Wat to do next?

[Atom]

^^Don't know. That method works for me.