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TGIK
February 19th, 2011, 02:46 AM
My ATI card which has 512 MB only shows up as being 256 in Ubuntu-- what's up with this --

and -- how do you now tweak your xorg setting in ubuntu 10.10

thanks,

jerrrys
February 19th, 2011, 06:26 PM
what are you using to see this ? get a second opinion; open a terminal and enter lshw that should tell you. and here's a place to start looking around

http://www.googlubuntu.com/results/?cx=006238239194895611142%3Au-ocqbntw_o&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=video+card+shows+wrong+ram&as_qdr=all&sa=Google+Search&lang=en#1031

TGIK
February 21st, 2011, 06:39 AM
I used another comm and line invoking the drm of my setup and it said it had 512 mb but it still said it had only 256 of "pre-fetchable memory- so I guess it's fine just feel like their should be a more optimum driver setup for my card- sorry for spelling and format errors- I am writing on an iPad and it's weird !