[Gllug] find how much RAM is available.

Russell Howe rhowe at siksai.co.uk
Wed Sep 28 22:06:22 UTC 2005


On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:34:26PM +0100, Pooly wrote:
> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378
> [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Those are the critical words.

"integrated" means that it doesn't have RAM dedicated to the graphics
chip and instead uses system RAM. Probably not as efficient as having
its own, but cheaper...

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