Graphic Memory

[reiko]

Is there any command in Linux to find out how much Graphic memory I have. I m using a d845 board and i just want to know how much onboard graphic memory is available.

[oz]

There are several ways, but one easy way is to go to a terminal and run:

lspci -v | less

...then look through the listing for VGA compatible controller, or something similar, then look below it for the "prefetchable" memory.

[reiko]

Hi OZar tried lspci tool but the thing is i have only 64MB on board garphic memory as per the specification give in the manual of my motherboard but the output of Lspci shows 128MB of prefetchable memory. Any Idea of why it's shown like that?

[oz]

Sorry... just retested the command above and it appears that it does not give the accurate video RAM count for me, either.

Try running this command instead:

grep -i ram /var/log/Xorg.0.log; grep -i mem /var/log/Xorg.0.log

It's a little more drawn out and complicated, but it should give an accurate video RAM count.

[reiko]

Yes Ozar the first Grep n is getting me the Exact Size of my Video memory!!!!! Thanks a Lot!!!!!!!!!!! I want to install 845 resolution package how can i do that???????????

[oz]

Yes Ozar the first Grep n is getting me the Exact Size of my Video memory!!!!! Thanks a Lot!!!!!!!!!!! I want to install 845 resolution package how can i do that???????????

Glad that worked for you.

You'll need to install the i810 package preferably using your package manager for your distro. For Arch (my distro), it's the xf86-video-i810 package.