On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:03:14AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 09:54, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > I have a box with a video card that claims to have 32mb memory. Running > > at 1028x768, the best I can get is 8 colour depth. Is this about right? > > Not really: > 1024 pixels * 768 pixels * 8 bits per pixel = 6291456 bits = 6MB for one
Eh? 1B = 8 bits. Or have video card makers now started screwing the public over by counting thei video memory in bits? I hope HDD manufacturers never catch on to this trick (like redefining a gig as 1 billion bytes, so their hard drives look bigger). - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
