Question about video ram
 

When doing xorgconfig
it asks me how much do i have on my video card
but its in kilobytes i think

how much ram should i put for a 256 meg video card?

Well, easy math. One MB equals 1024kB, 256 * 1024 = 262144kB.
That would be choice 11 as far as I remember. :)

This is an optional setting required only when not all memory of your graphics card is seen by the X.

Well, 1 MB = 1024 K, so 256 * 1024 = 262144 kilobytes. Also, I prefer 'xorgsetup' to 'xorgconfig'.

If you have nvidia, there is nvidia-xconfig. Don't know about ati.

I always seem to use xorgconfig. In your experience,H_TeXMeX_H, does xorgsetup work quite reliably when auto-generating xorg.conf?

Yeah, I think so. I've found 'xorgconfig' just tends to mess things up. Usually I just use 'xorgsetup' then manually add, delete, and change some things.

Thanks, man:-) I'll do that on my next slack install.:)

I think you've got this a big mixed up. xorgconfig is the same as the old xf86config, which is just a script that asks the user a bunch of ques tions and then basically uses that to fill in the blanks on a rather conservative template. It can't really screw up unless the user gives it bogus info.

xorgcfg on the other hand, is the automated version that goes and probes everything, then tries to init the display and show a crude representation of what it found to the user. It used to be a lot more dodgy, but with modern cards and their explicit enumeration on the PCI bus, it has become much more reliable.

I don't know if I'm giving 'xorgconfig' bogus info, but it's difficult to make it produce a usable config. Whether it's bogus info or not, it's the only info I got.

You know, most people would actually Google a bit to make sure the data they're giving the utility is correct rather than just throwing their hands in the air and saying "oh well". xorgconfig is very reliable if you answer it's questions correctly.

...or would you care to cite exactly where it's going wrong?

The problem is that I don't have all the data, and although I did search plenty, I didn't get anywhere.

You can use either one. All I'm saying is that I prefer 'xorgsetup' plus a little manual tweaking where necessary. I'm not saying 'xorgconfig' sucks. Some people prefer it, and I understand that.

No, specifically you said "Yeah, I think so. I've found 'xorgconfig' just tends to mess things up. Usually I just use 'xorgsetup' then manually add, delete, and change some things." which more than slightly implies xorgconfig is more error-prone than xorgsetup--which is not true. "tends to mess things up" doesn't leave much room for interpretation.

I am saying that no, xorgconfig does not mess things up. In comparison to the operation of xorgsetup and xorgcfg it practically can't "mess things up" unless the user feeds it bogus information.

Ok then, I'll say it differently. 'xorgconfig' is less fool-proof that 'xorgsetup'. So, if fools like me use 'xorgconfig', then the chance of messing things up is much higher than with 'xorgsetup'.

Spin it whatever way you want, I don't care. It's still a stupid thing to have said.