Video Memory

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

> Well, I'm pretty sure it has at least 128 MB's of RAM. I just ran lspci
> and it reports the following. I've added a couple of blank lines to make
> it easier to find the lines with the RAM listings.
>
> 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation C51G
> [GeForce 6100] [10de:0242] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>    Subsystem: FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc Unknown device [1509:6006]
>    Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>    Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>    Latency: 0
>    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
>
>    Region 0: Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>    Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>    Region 3: Memory at fc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>    [virtual] Expansion ROM at 30000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>
>    Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
>        Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>        Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>    Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
> Queue=0/0 Enable-
>        Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
>
> Once more the claim is made by a program that it is using 256 MB's of
> RAM, and this time also an additional 32 MB's along with it, and a 128
> KB ROM to boot! Oh well, it doesn't seem to be slowing me down any.
>
> Later, Ray Parrish

Please correct me if I'm wrong, seems your video board has indeed a
resident memory of 256Mb, and requires at least another 128 Mb (RAM
memory) for managing, thus leaving 384Mb of free RAM. (?)

L.