Question about videoram in xorg.conf

Gentoomen · n00b Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 30

Hi,

I already set up my nvidia card following the instructions at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml but I'm still curious why my xorg.conf file section "device" does not have videoram listed because I have a nvidia geforce2 mx/mx400 32mb ram video card. I don't how much better performance would the 32mb give but I hope is it not sitting around not being used because watching videos on my computer is kinda slow and choppy.

didymos · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:56 am Post subject:

Umm, it's not there because you didn't put it there and you probably don't need it. If your card has graphics memory, and X starts, then it's being used. You usually would only need the ram option if X wasn't properly detecting all your memory or you were using an onboard graphics chip that shares main memory with the system. If you want to, go ahead and add "VideoRam 32768". It won't hurt anything. The choppy, slow video is due to something else. I don't know what, because it could be all sorts of things. Look through /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see which extensions and modules are being loaded, and post your xorg.conf. Also, what sort of video are we talking about here? A DVD? From an avi or mpeg file?
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