Re: [expert] 16 or 32mb Video Cards for Linux

[Wolfgang Bornath]

Alwyn Schoeman wrote:
> 
> While we're on the subject, I've got a Riva TNT2 chipset card from Gigabyte
> ... its got 32 Mb.  The Xserver I use is SVGA since I  choose the Diamond 
> TNT2 setting in Xconfigurator...
> 
> My X suddenly uses between 44 and 48 Mb of RAM???????

This makes sense in a weird way:
I use a card with the TNT chipset with half the memory (16MB) and my X
now chomps 24 Megs off my RAM. :(
What happens if there is a TNT-card with 128MB ?
Will X then use 180 MB RAM?

wobo
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