Re: toshiba video problem
On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 05:40:01 +0200, David Wright
<deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>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.
Specs say 32 mb external video memory, which says to me that it is
shared ram. But limited to 32 mb, so higher resolution should not
cause a problem?
>Cheers,
>David.
--
Noah Sombrero
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