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Doogee:
Well, im up to my video card ive selected the correct one now it wants my video memory i have a 16meg vid card. is that what it wants to know? if it is whats 16 meg in kilobytes?

voidmain:
I don't remember xf86config asking for memory size in kilobytes but to answer your question it would be 16MB*1024=16,384KB.

Master of Reality:
i usually just put down 16000.

yes it does ask  for kilobtes, void main.

voidmain:
I guess it's been quite some time since I've had to enter the memory size as it's always correctly detected my equipment. RedHat found my nVidia Geforce2 w/32MB (and it shows 32MB, not Kilobyte). In fact in my /etc/X11/XF86Config it doesn't list the amount of memory at all, the drivers correctly detect it.

But I'm sure it was in Kilobyte if you say it is, it's been a long time since I used XFree v3.x where the memory was probably required. At any rate, 16,384KB is the same as 16MB, you're shorting yourself if you only specify 16,000KB (not that you'll probably use that extra 384KB anyhoo. You could run 32 bit color at 1600x1400 and only use half that amount. Of course GL video games might want more than that.

Doogee:
ok so now i have cofigured this xf thingo now how do i fucking well start icewm at login, i dont know which login manager is us but it only says red hat up the top and i installed gnome desktop 1st ive only had kde installed for a week or 2, does that mean im using gnome's login manager.

anyway please help me out.


-D

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