> You can get the amount of videoRam from the x-server log (python script > attached). This is a little unsafe since the video driver is responsible > for logging this info and I don't know if my script works on the format of > all drivers. Also, certain drivers (fbdev) don't output this at all. Then > again, there is no hardware openGL support for this anyway ;-). > Another way to obtain the videoRam would be to use 'lspci -v'. > This is however not error prone either since the the the size reported by > lspci is not necessarily correct. The script doesn't work for me, fglrx driver. The videoram line in Xorg.log is
(--) fglrx(0): VideoRAM: 65536 kByte, Type: DDR SGRAM / SDRAM I don't know how to program python, so I can't fix your script - sorry. Stefan