Questions about memory

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 10:13 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > And one more thing the GPU
> > that on the board is not use. I have a graphic-card which is also an
> > ASUS. Which uses G210 GPU on it. Which also means that it sometimes
> > borrrow memory from the motherboard. I am not sure that this function
> > is use in KUbuntu. 
> 
> As I understand it, the graphics memory is allocated from the main 
> memory at startup and the allocation is permanent while the system is 
> running.

AFAIK the graphics framebuffer already is allocated by the BIOS, when
turning on the computer.