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thinkwiki On Don, 01 Feb 2007, justin joseph wrote: > Have now come up against a stone wall and need help. The video card > on this machine is a ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW > [Radeon Mobility 7500]. X is working but I don't think its working > the way it should. > > I am unable to find from google, why lspci says that this card is > 128MB whereas it is 32MB. this is only the memory area use by your card. your cpu is capable to address at least 4gb of ram, and a physicall devices grab just some of the addresses so the cpu can work with them. 512mb are grabbed by your system memory and every pci device takes some memory > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 504 230 273 0 8 96 > -/+ buffers/cache: 125 379 > Swap: 1011 0 1011 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > I see that there is only 504MB of ram where as it must have been 512. > where has the rest 8mb gone? I understand that this happens only when > its shared by the VGA controller and in this case why would the VGA > controller share it because its got 32 MB of vram. i bet 8mb are lost because auf AGP, the agpgart driver in linux by default grabs 8mb of memory. > I can provide the full lspci output if required and would be nice if > someone could send me an xorg.conf which fully utilizes this system. as above .. take a look to thinkwiki > on the sidelines, I were wondering why *most* of the subsystems on > this T42 shows up as R50e on the lspci output. It that usual or has > Lenovo conned me into purchasing R50e machine with just T42 name with > better lid material. lspci just reads the PCI IDs of your devices, then uses some sort of databae to print _you_ a human readable device name. So don't take the text displayed to serious. -- Florian Reitmeir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
