Old i810 mobo with built in video very slow

Hi All,
It's been a while since I've posted here, I'm loving Arch all over again.  After distro hopping for a while this year I've settled on Arch once again.  I love the minimalistitc and elegant approach and learning about the configuration files and seeings to keep the system going.  Anyway,  I'm having one issue with an old P3 533 system that rests in a i810 motherboard with on-board video.  The system RAM reads 384 MB in the BIOS as well as when the "free" command is issued which is telling me that the video chip-set is getting zero RAM to work with.  Does anyone know if it's possible to adjust the shared RAM with the video using config files in Linux?  The BIOS does not have any option for this, surprisingly.  Thanks in advance
-Pete

Gusar wrote:
I am quite sure that even on those old things RAM to the graphic card is allocated dynamically. I would search elsewhere for your problems. Which problems are those exactly? And which driver are you using?
And as for that 120 x 80, that's not resolution, it's number of characters. You shouldn't be using vga= anyway, you should be using KMS which will automatically give you a native resolution.
Gusar,
My main issue was slow window rendering and movement i.e., very laggy feeling.  When Win XP was on this machine windows were redered much smoother.  Since I'm running openbox, everything should be pretty snappy but it isn't.  I've run Arch on multiple machinex and this is the only one giving me the issue. I'm not trying make a big deal out of this, it just doesn't seem right and I figured there may be an easy fix or something I may have missed.
Regarding appending vga=771 to the kernel line, I followed the wiki beginner's guide and have been successful with all my other machines except for this one.  If I sjouldn't be using this feature then why is it in the beginner's guide?  I'm usinf xf86-video-intel as my driver and have followed the beginner's guide for all the xorg requirements.
-Pete

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