Video Memory

[Ray Parrish]

Hello,

I have an Nvidia GeForce 6100 video card onboard my motherboard that 
uses shared memory. In the bios of my machine it is allocated 128 MBs of 
RAM from my meager 512 MB system RAM.

For some reason, every program I have used to inspect the video 
parameters report that my video card is using 256 MBs of RAM. This 
includes "nvidia-settings -a" which reports " Attribute 'VideoRam' 
(ray-desktop:0.0): 262144." which when divided by 1024 yields exactly 
256 MBs. Also the sysinfo gui program at Applications, System Tools, 
Sysinfo reports 256 MB.

free reports 384436 bytes total RAM, which when divided by 1024 gives 
375.42578125 MBs.

Are there any other commands which can return the amount of video memory 
in use? I've spent quite a bit of time looking through the man files 
searching for one, and haven't found anything yet.

Is it possible for Ubuntu to over ride the bios setting and allocate 
more RAM to the video card?

I'm not experiencing any problems, but I am curious why everything keeps 
telling me the video card is using 256 MBs of RAM.

Thanks, Later, Ray Parrish

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