Re: toshiba video problem
On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 13:09:57 (-0400), Noah Sombrero wrote:
>
> Finally, there is a caviat to all this. Laptops many times take a
> piece of motherboard ram for video ram, and larger resolutions take
> more video ram. That while debian appears to take another piece of
> ram for itself in a ramdisk. This laptop originally came with 500mb
> ram and that was fine with win xp. It now has 1.25 gb, and it is not
> enough for 1440x900 video and debian. Parts of the display start
> flashing as video and program usage start moving things around. And
> then debian dies. I was able to get it back using restore boot.
>
> Yes, I have another gb of ram on the way. I hope that will be
> sufficient.
I was under the impression that this Toshiba had 32MB of video
memory. I don't see why maxing out the RAM at 2GB would help with
a video resolution problem.
Cheers,
David.
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