How do I ascertain whether this device has a "dedicated graphic accelerator" and "64 MB of on-board graphic memory"?
Slicer requires a minimum of 2 GB of RAM and a dedicated graphic accelerator with 64 MB of
on-board graphic memory.
lshw lists, among others,
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: b
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 8GiB
*-bank:0
description: SODIMM DDR3
physical id: 0
slot: SODIMM1
size: 4GiB
width: 64 bits
*-bank:1
description: SODIMM DDR3
physical id: 1
slot: SODIMM2
size: 4GiB
width: 64 bits
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 09
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:32 memory:c0000000-c03fffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:8000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff
I don't know whether these things accelerate graphics, are dedicated, or are graphic memory. I'm not even sure if a controller is the same thing as a graphics card.
My conclusion so far is that a controller is part of the CPU, not a graphics card, and that I do not have a 'dedicated' graphic accelerator, that this is referring to a graphics card with its own processor separate from the CPU, and likewise that this graphics card should have 64 MB of its own memory. Hence my tentative conclusion is that this computer cannot run 3D Slicer as designed, and my tentative answer to this question is "use sudo lshw and check the 'display' section", but I hope to hear from you to learn more, if I am mistaken.
