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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #426582
  2. Comment #71

Comment 71 for bug 426582

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Brad Krause (brad-krause) wrote : Re: (32MB) certain windows drawn garbled when XAA is used

To find the amount of video memory (note VGA is in upper case):

lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200]

Use the device number to get the card information:

lspci -v -s 01:00.0
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD [Radeon 7200]
 Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Device 0538
 Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
 Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
 I/O ports at c800 [size=256]
 Memory at ff880000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
 Expansion ROM at ff860000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel modules: radeon, radeonfb

The first 'Memory' line shows this card has 64MB RAM. The line of interest in mistr's post is:
 Memory at 48000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]

mistr has a card with 128MB RAM.