VRAM ( was Re: sysctl hw.model )

Tom Harrington atomicbird at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 13:28:09 PDT 2007


On 8/15/07, Eric Gorr <mailist at ericgorr.net> wrote:
> The only thing I really need to know is whether or not VRAM is being
> shared with the 'real' ram like it is on a MacMini or MacBook. If
> there is a way to determine this, that would be the best solution for
> the problem I am attempting to solve.

I don't have a mini or MacBook to test on, but I'd guess that Apple's
VideoHardwareDemo app at
<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/VideoHardwareInfo/> would
demonstrate how to find that.  Among other things it looks up the
amount of video RAM-- maybe that'd be zero on those Macs?

-- 
Tom Harrington
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