Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>
> 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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I have the same thing with my voodoo banshee.. I'm still trying to figure out if this
is
OK or I have a problem.
X ( with KDE ) uses 59M as reported by top and or Xosview. WIth gnome/e I've seen it
as
high as 89 M..
Everything runs fine, but it just seems odd.
Alan
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