Video Memory

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

Ray Parrish wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Is it possible to edit your BIOS configuration and restrict the amount 
of memory reserved for video?

L.

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