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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=215522

           Summary: [feature-request] add simple way to show the Video RAM
           Product: openSUSE 10.2
           Version: Beta 1
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: YaST2
        AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: al4321@xxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: jsrain@xxxxxxxxxx


hi all !

A very trivial feature (under Windows) such as showing amount of Video RAM
turned to be very hard (next to impossible) under Linux.

I am not nooby in Linux world (3 years of exp), but the command is not trivial
either.
We have made long discussions on the mailing lists with many knowledgable
people about that topic. We came to conclusion that the only command that could
deliver more-or-less reliable results is:
"grep -i ram /var/log/Xorg.0.log"

other commands, such as "lspci -v -v" were found not reliable i.e. failing on
some systems. "grep -i mb /var/log/Xorg.0.log" and "grep -i vesa
/var/log/Xorg.0.log" failed too... (especially problematic system was VMware
5).

Yast2 & Sax2 doesn't show that at all. (at least I couldnt find)

So I ask you to provide users with a simple way to find out how much Video RAM
a system has.
Maybe add that feature to Sax2 ?

both GUI version (under KDE) and text version (using "sax2 -p") must help the
user identify his video card.

NOTE: the topic was: "please help found out how much "video RAM" the video card
has", started on 26.10.2006 on "suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx" list.


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