[linux-help] Re: Video Card switch

[flimzy@xxxxxxxxxx]

This is a silly debate and getting a bit too heated for something of such
little significance if you ask me... can we all just get along? :)
To point out a minor technicality...  1600x1200 @ 32bpp uses only 7.5mb of
video memory.  So unless his TNT2 had less than 8mb of RAM, or if he's
using a dual-head display... then telling X that he has less RAM than he
actually has will make no practical difference whatsoever.
Extra video RAM will be used for 3D texture buffering mostly.



> True so far. But the video resolution may (and probably is) be limited
> by the amount of memory he originally had (16mb), and so he may need to
>  reset the resolution lines to allow the card/drivers to take advantage
>  of the higher amount of memory (32mb).  How can he do that easily and
> not require hand editing of the XF86config file.??
>
> The way I do it is to use Xconfigurator.  It does allow you to select
> the driver for the card if you want to, and thus can be manually set
> for  his desired config and does not 100% rely on the auto-detect
> features.
>
> Manually running Xconfigurator or allowing kudzu to run it has never
> been a problem for me, ESPECIALLY with the standard video cards used
> such as a gforce2 or a tnt2.  And I love being able to tell it what
> resolutions I want available as I upgrade my card to one with more
> memory and better resolutions available.  :)
>
> Jeff V
>
>
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