How can I find out how much memory my graphics card has on Red Hat 2.6.18?

Question

I tried searching and googling, but I could not figure out how to figure out the specs on my graphics card. Is there a command or a menu I can use to access this information? BTW it is a Nvidia card, I believe and 8 series.

Answer 1

If you are using the proprietary drivers, try running nvidia-settings. If not, run lspci -v and it should be on a line like this in your video card section:

Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]

Unfortunately, on my computer at least this does not work right, as my video card has 512 megabytes of RAM.

Answer 2

You could use lspci to find out what the exact model of the video card is, and then look it up online...

[12:34pm][wlynch@node ~] lspci | grep "3D controller"
04:00.0 3D controller: nVidia Corporation GF100 [Tesla S2050] (rev a3)
05:00.0 3D controller: nVidia Corporation GF100 [Tesla S2050] (rev ff)
08:00.0 3D controller: nVidia Corporation GF100 [Tesla S2050] (rev ff)
09:00.0 3D controller: nVidia Corporation GF100 [Tesla S2050] (rev ff)

Answer 3

Look in the X11 log. Mine is at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and part of it looks like this (I'm running a VM):

(II) VBoxVideo(0): VESA BIOS detected
(II) VBoxVideo(0): VESA VBE Version 2.0
(II) VBoxVideo(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 131072 kB
(II) VBoxVideo(0): VESA VBE OEM: VirtualBox VBE BIOS http://www.virtualbox.org/
(II) VBoxVideo(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 0.2

131072 KB = 128 MB, which is exactly what I've set in the VM settings.