From: "Tahir Hashmi" tahirbond@lycos.com Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 9:55 AM
How does that affect movie players? GNOME/KDE not light as in they require
more system RAM. That shouldn't have
much to do with VRAM. SiS cards, even if detected (like 6326), are driven
by the SVGA X Server, instead of the
I'm not sure but the jazzy icon colors,plethora of small icons on taskbar,the brilliant color schemes (themes) (especially in GNOME) must be taking some VRAM right? In case of 6215 there is meagre 1MB or 2 MB in some cases. I always thought that drivers made for a specific hardware were much better than those made for a generic ones. Maybe that's the problem.
. Playing movies.... are you sure you want to do this ? ;-)
Why not? My Athlon 600 MHz w/ a 4MB SiS 6326 plays movies fine as long as
they're under 640x480 pixels. I run
GNOME @ 1024x768x16 resolution.
Mine: Cyrix MII 300 (~233 MHz Pentium) 64 MB SDRAM 2MB Sis 6215 800X600 8bit colors
Xing (Redmond): Full screen display no prob whatsoever (hallelujah !) Gtv (Linux): umm.. lot of frames. not satisfactory.
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