On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 09:37 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Monday 04 June 2007 09:12, primm wrote:
My mobo info says 'Geforce 6100 with up to 384Mb shared memory'. How do I find out how much memory it's taking? Is it RAM it's taking?
What exactly are you trying to find out? Those 384 MB reside on the video board itself. By "shared memory" it means this memory can appear directly in the address space of the host system and be accessed just like primary RAM. These video boards do not use any of your primary system RAM, though they do take up address space. This is in contrast to some mainboard video hardware, which uses system RAM as its framebuffer and primitive storage.
Depending on the CPU and mainboard you use, the presence of video RAM in the system's physical address space may or may not limit the amount of primary RAM you can actually access. In particular, without a CPU and mainboard capable of supporting PAE (physical address extension), the need to bring the video (and possibly other PCI card) RAM into the 32-bit physical address space may limit usable primary RAM to 3 or 3.5 GB.
Nope, exactly the opposite, shared video memory means it allocates or reserve system memory (RAM) for the video card. http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=1399&p=2 http://forums.cnet.com/5208-10149_102-0.html?forumID=7&threadID=119317&messageID=1354197 To answer primm's questions: 1. Check the BIOS 2. Yes, it is RAM Regards Rudolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org