I believe there may be a setting to turn off in the BIOS VGA/graphics card, but my question is you guys:
>Is this recommended? And
>If I turn it off, then how will I reopen it in the BIOS (assuming I turn it off, I won’t be able to see the option to turn it on, because there is no graphic output!!)?
What to do is to change the maximum shared memory value to be as small as possible. 4M, 8M, whatever it makes you move it To. Once the shared memory space is closed, it will not occupy your system. If 32M of ram will affect the life of your server, then buy another show and make it really happy!
Here is the strange problem. I have a server with 1GB RAM, but it shows 768MB at startup. I found the reason for it-that is, it has a connection with Onboard graphics card with main RAM shared memory. Running Ubuntu Server, it does not actually use any graphics-it is all set to SSH entry, so there is no need to use VGA.
I believe there may be settings Turn off VGA/graphics card in BIOS, but my question is you guys:
>Is this recommended? And
>If I turn it off, then how will I reopen it in the BIOS (assuming I turn it off, I won’t be able to see the option to turn it on, because there is no graphic output!!)?
Unless you have an auxiliary card pci/agp graphics card installed, you will not be able to disable the VGA graphics in the BIOS. You may see this option, but Unless there is other output, it won’t let you do this. If your BIOS is fancy, it may have a serial output, in this case you can disable VGA, if you need a monitor you can use the serial console .
What to do is to change the maximum shared memory value to be as small as possible. 4M, 8M, whatever it will let you move it to. Once the shared memory space is closed, it will not Take up your system. If 32M of ram will affect the life of your server, then buy another show and make it really happy!