On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 13:09:57 (-0400), Noah Sombrero wrote: > > Finally, there is a caviat to all this. Laptops many times take a > piece of motherboard ram for video ram, and larger resolutions take > more video ram. That while debian appears to take another piece of > ram for itself in a ramdisk. This laptop originally came with 500mb > ram and that was fine with win xp. It now has 1.25 gb, and it is not > enough for 1440x900 video and debian. Parts of the display start > flashing as video and program usage start moving things around. And > then debian dies. I was able to get it back using restore boot. > > Yes, I have another gb of ram on the way. I hope that will be > sufficient.
I was under the impression that this Toshiba had 32MB of video memory. I don't see why maxing out the RAM at 2GB would help with a video resolution problem. Cheers, David.
