Re: Help allocating RAM to video card
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:03:31AM -0800, Ridge Chittenden wrote:
> I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI chip
> with a measly 2MB of video RAM. This is enough for me
> to run X with a resolution of 800x600, but no more.
If you set the color depth to 16 bits instead of 24 bits, you should be
able to get 1024x768. (1024x768*16/8 < 2*1024*1024!)
If you set it to 8 bits, you can get even more.
Personally I hardly ever use 24 bit graphics because it makes mozilla,
etc, use too much memory.
Just change the "DefaultDepth" setting in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to 16.
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