Hello dear friends of LQ, like I has saying in the title, I'm looking forward for Mandriva 2011 release, and I have a doubt about the installation, someone has told me that I'll need 1 Gb of video card and I've asked back if he is certain of this but I didn't have my answer yet, the problem is that I only have 1 Gb of RAM memory and I have 128 Mb of video card (shared from RAM memory), if this is what I need to have to can install the KDE Mandriva desktop I cannot do anything about it.
Anyway, why that much?
Thank you for your replies.

Why don't you just go to the Mandriva site and look it up??
http://www.mandriva.com/en/

I doubt that you need 1GB of video memory. The only reason you'd need lots of video memory is if you wanted a very high resolution, with a very high 3D frame rate. A GUI doesn't need that.

Hi, If you are happy with the way your Mandriva 2010.x is working then IMO, you'll have no problems with 2011.0

I currently have Mandriva x86_64 2010.2 installed and running on a 2.8Ghz pentium with only 512Mb ram and an ati x1300, 256Mb graphics card. And it runs most everyday apps quite well, although I am using the OpenBox de, not kde4 with plasma and kwin effects.

Cheers, Glenn

I've tried all Mandriva 2011.0 Alphas thur the RC's not a single one will even load on my main machine.
It will load on my 2 Dell's with 500MB video card. But I wasn't impressed. I looked at Mageia from the orignal Mandriva programers
It loaded and run's faster that Mandrake 2010.1-2 does and I didn't have any of the hassels like I did with Mandriva.
I've sine made the switch to Mageia. It does look's a lot like and set's up like the orignal Mandriva.

Thank you everyone for your responses, right now I'm using Mageia and I've been experiencing problems with the audio, at the beggining of each session it appears a message asking me if I want to forget the 2 audio default controllers that my system use, both HD Intel, and if I said yes to that question what I have then is no audio, what I have as controller is the "silly" output and there's no audio with that and I can't get back the 2 other good controllers.
Here my audio device controller from the <lspci> command in the terminal: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01). This is what I have right now.
Any idea or suggestion on how to get this back to normal without that questioning at the startup?