On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 05:40:01 +0200, David Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 13:09:57 (-0400), Noah Sombrero wrote: >> >> Finally, there is a caviat to all this. Laptops many times take a >> piece of motherboard ram for video ram, and larger resolutions take >> more video ram. That while debian appears to take another piece of >> ram for itself in a ramdisk. This laptop originally came with 500mb >> ram and that was fine with win xp. It now has 1.25 gb, and it is not >> enough for 1440x900 video and debian. Parts of the display start >> flashing as video and program usage start moving things around. And >> then debian dies. I was able to get it back using restore boot. >> >> Yes, I have another gb of ram on the way. I hope that will be >> sufficient. > >I was under the impression that this Toshiba had 32MB of video >memory. I don't see why maxing out the RAM at 2GB would help with >a video resolution problem. Specs say 32 mb external video memory, which says to me that it is shared ram. But limited to 32 mb, so higher resolution should not cause a problem? >Cheers, >David. -- Noah Sombrero
