is there a way to find out how much video memory a video card has. maybe with lspci, i have looked through, but odnt know exactally where to look.. i found one on my laptop that said size=128M but i know the laptop has only 64 max with shared mem. the problem is, i am looking at this laptop, some compaq piece of sh... anyway, it has an ati radeon, and the site says 32MB, user configurable to 128MB. well, in windows on this system, it shows 32mb. and i cant find anywhere to turn it up, in windows. and i was just wondering what a linux live cd might do. plus, i have a bunch of video cards athat i dont konw how much mem they have, and they dont say on boot, like some do.

Have you checked the BIOS for video card RAM settings? I wouldn't have thought a Radeon would share system memory, so I'd expect the 'user configurable' to mean you could buy more RAM for the card itself. However, it is a laptop, so all bets are off... but if it is sharing system RAM, I can almost guarantee it'll be a BIOS setting, not a driver/operating system setting.

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what i read on the ati site is that it is an acpi thing..... lower the video ram, more battery life... i dunno. i was just wondering if there was a wayto do it with commands

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your right though, it is in the bios... but still is there a command.