Convert Unneeded VRAM Into A Storage Device "Have you ever thought why does your graphics card has so much memory? Do You think you have not enough RAM or awfully slow swap file? Do you need fast ram-disk or diskless machine? Go for it! Take one of these cheap 128MB graphics cards and enjoy the speed. Michal Schulz wrote a good description on how to take the advantage of not used video card memory." [Slashdot.org]

You lie to XFree86 about how much VRAM your display adapter has, then configure MTD (memory technology devices) to treat that spare memory as a ramdisk.  You could use it as swap space or slap an ext2 filesystem on it.

Wacky.

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