memory size of a video card

[joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 08:33 +0200, joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote:
>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 11:35 +0200, joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> is there a possibility to find out the memory size of a video card?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Joachim Backes
>>> The program ddcprobe will do that.
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>> Hi Aaaron,
>>
>> it seems to fail on my machine (having a lcd monitor):
>>
>> backes at eule [backes]: ddcprobe
>>
>> Monitor autoprobe results
>> Monitor autoprobe failed.
>>
>> Regards
>>
> Well I believe you , but it does not make much sense. On my machine
> first the video card is probed, then there is a pause and then the
> monitor is probed. So I owuld expect the video card part would succeed
> even if the monitor part failed. But I guess the two may be tied
> together in some sense.
> 
> What is more curioou is that, as someone else noticed, ddcprobe gives a
> different answer than lspci.
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Hi Aaron,

getting correct results only as root.

Regards

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