Video Memory

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

> Well , unless someone snuck into my house, and installed some extra RAM
> in my computer that I haven't noticed yet, the video card using 256 MB's
> of RAM only leaves my main RAM with the other half of the 512 MB's in my
> machine which is 256 MB's as well. Of course I do have a one GB swap
> file in use as well, so maybe I am running with only 256 MB's available
> to the cpu.
>
> No, that can't be right, because if I run the free command, it reports
> 384 MB's of total physical RAM available to the system, plus the swap
> file. I just think *something* is fooling all of these other programs
> into reporting 256 MB's for the video card, and it's really only running
> 128 MB's.
>
> Here's the output of the free command.
>
> ray at ray-desktop:~$ free -m
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:           375        366          9          0          0         51
> -/+ buffers/cache:        314         60
> Swap:         1023        501        522
>
> Here's another little oddity. This is what lspci reports for my cpu --
>
> Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
>
> And I know that I have an AMD Sempron 3400+ in this machine. Yep, I just
> fired up Sysinfo from the System Tools menu, and it reports this  -- AMD
> Sempron(tm) Processor 3400+ I don't think lspci is working very well.
>
>


Well, I give up, lack of knowledge.

Do you have this app. installed? nvidia-xconfig. In my system it
reports the board resident
memory plus the additional ram assigned (for me 256+256).

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-xconfig/nvidia-xconfig-1.0.tar.gz
or probably Synaptic

Best Regards and sorry I couldn't help.

Lucio