Mono required by ubuntu-desktop

Alexandre Strube surak at surak.eti.br
Thu Aug 3 17:19:11 BST 2006


> > > Not many PCs (at least not many I've ever encountered) steal the RAM for
> > > the video card, this tends to be a laptop trick (I'm willing to be
> > > corrected here, I've just not seen it in even the cheapest desktops).

There are several machines which does this. Some onboard chips even gets
in conflict with nvidia boards [1]. The onboard video becomes unusable,
but the memory is stolen anyway.. Rather strange indeed.

Oh, and this is not necessairly true about the cheapest desktops. I got
last year a testing board from intel which came with a quite decent
processor (a pentium d at that time), with i945 chipset and stealing
128mb of main RAM. AFAIK, it's the same video board used on those new
mac/intel notebooks, isn't it?

[1] http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=192677&highlight=nvidia
+intel

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