ram question

[Roy Nickelson]

hi,
the video card in my dad's laptop shares 64 mb of system ram.  I haven't
seen more than that being shared but it is possible.
Roy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Sutherland" <wearable at cogeco.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: ram question


Roy,

Most video cards don't share the system RAM, especially those with
lots (64/128/258) FAST ram. There are some "integrated chipsets"
(like your VIA and mine) that do share system RAM. These are very
inferior to the vid cards with their own fast RAM (for graphics).
I don't think there is any chipset that shares 128MB video RAM
with the system RAM. Mine shares up to 32MB, that's the largest
sharing amount I have seen. If you actually have a video card
(not integrated into the motherboard), it probably does NOT share
RAM with the system.

   -- Doug


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