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1. How do I check the amount of video card memory being used?

2. Thx, that helped me, but waht means “access denied” after the “capabilities”? That means my vga card is not in use? (I think)

   1. try sudo

   2. heheh ur a furry <3 murr

      1. fucking weird

3. Thank you but can you clarify; how do you view video memory in use additionally?

   When I follow the above instructions, I get a much lower amount of memory than I know what is on this particular video card. The need for this is when I don’t know how much memory; on a laptop for instance.

   @Fox
   I don’t know why exactly the capabilities require root privs but that seems to be the case. Try:

   sudo lspci -v -s 00:02.0

4. what means “access denied” after the “capabilities”?

   Do use superuser. #sudo lspci -v -s 00:02.0

5. how do i find how much memory my video card has?

6. You could also do:

   lspci -v | grep VGA -A12

   To focus the -v option right to the VGA adapter

7. Hi,

   for this example the output of your video card is the same as the one ‘m using, and I cannot find the correct intel video driver (the one currently install keeps crashing every so often) which video driver did you install –for Intel Corporation 82845G/GL?
   I’m using arch linux

   Thanks.

8. [admin@ttcol06p admin]$ sudo grep -i mem /var/log/XFree86.0.log|grep VESA
   (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 8000 kB
   (II) VESA(0): Total Memory: 125 64KB banks (8000kB)
   (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 8000 kB
   

   For Xorg:

   grep -i mem /var/log/Xorg.0.log |grep VESA

   Saludos desde Argentina!

9. how to run .exe files in linux?

   1. You cannot run .exe files under UNIX/Linux operating systems. These .exe files are solely created for Windows Operating Systems. You have something else instead of .exe files under Linux and they are called .rpm files which are the executable formats, do not be confused with the definition of executable and .exe file.

      1. No. RPM files are just archives (packages) of software, and they are meant to be used on Red Hat-based distros (such as Fedora and CentOS). Linux executable files do not have a specific extension, but are usually in the ELF format. You can also “execute” interpreted scripts, such as shell and Python scripts.

         1. Well, when first i landed to the Unix world, i would assume that everything will be the same as is in Windows Operating Systems. Reluctantly I would try to install some proprietary graphics software coded for Windows Platform and I would receive some obscure and absurd response from my Linux machine. This is the case that a newbie assumes that he/she is able to do the same in both platforms. Albeit, I have to mention that if someone really wants to know the intricacy of operating systems then the best book to start with is “Modern Operating Systems” by venerable Andrews S. Tanenbaum.

   2. if you have binary .exe then use wine
      or if .net .exe use mono to run exe that my personal experience

10. This is what I’m using in one of my scripts. And as the comments say, it doesn’t always return the correct value.

    ###############################################################################
    # Function  : guess_video_memory
    # Parameters: none
    # A sloppy function to attempt to retrieve video memory.  This is known to be
    # incorrect in some cases, although the value returned should never be higher
    # than actual. If you know a better way, please email it to me!
    ###############################################################################
    guess_video_memory() {
        test -x /usr/sbin/lspci || return 1
        slot="$(/usr/sbin/lspci | grep "VGA compatible controller:" | awk '{print $1}')"
        test -n "${slot}" || return 1
        let videomem="$(/usr/sbin/lspci -vs ${slot} |
            egrep ' prefetchable\) \[size=[0-9]+M' |
            perl -pe 's/.*size=([0-9]+)M.*/$1/g')" || return 1
        return 0
    }
    

11. As a matter of fact, you *can* open .EXE files in all major distros. Just make sure you install Wine.
    Ubuntu & Debian: sudo apt-get install wine

12. hey hi, i just wanna know how and where do i run the .SH file format, am using FEDORA 14.
    thanx.

13. Hi,
    using the commands mentioned in this article, I found that my notebook has 256MB video memory (32-bit, prefetchable), (Intel 945GM) on Linux Ubuntu 11.10.
    However when I try to change/select the video memoy in BIOS it gives only two options : 64MB or 128 MB. I have set it to 128MB, but Ubuntu is showing 256MB … How is it possible ??

14. My Xorg.0.log has a line like this:
    46 :[ 7.319] (–) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:2a02:17aa:20b5 rev 12, Mem @ 0xf8100000/1048576, 0xe0000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x00001800/8

    0xe0000000/268435456 is how many bytes of memory my video card has.

15. Really helpful article.
    Googled “how to check video memory on ubuntu server”, you guys were at second.

16. Very helpful. I was trying to find out how much memory my integrated card had for a windows game using the PlayOnLinux frontend for Wine.
    Linked here from ubuntuforums post from 3 years ago…

17. Thanks!!! Just what I was looking for

18. Hi guys,

    just dropping a comment to say thanks for your help :)
    Found a lot of useful info!

19. I’m trying to find out the memory of my Graphics Card, but these commands arent working for me, what ‘terminal’ am i supposed to be using???

    1. never mind, i figured it out.

20. I googled “arch find out how much memory video card has” and this site popped up first. Very helpful and thank you.

21. thanks very much!!!

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