[plug] Dell 9400

[Alex Nordstrom]

Tuesday, 2 May 2006 09:08, Adam Hewitt wrote:
> > Oh, 1 other 'bad' thing - the video card is meant to be an x1400
> > with 256M hypermemory (whatever that is), but the bios says its a 
> > 128M card.
>
> I think you will find that this means that you can use system memory
> to use as video memory, so if you had a Windows install with the
> proper drivers and software you could adjust the amount of memory to
> assign to the video card.

You shouldn't have to use an inferior operating system just to be able 
to set the amount of RAM used by the card. Xorg should let you set it 
through the VideoRam item in the Device section for your card.

-- 
Alex Nordstrom
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