Video Memory: How much?

Greetings: I have one machine used for video streaming/viewing using
a Max G400 video card with 8mB on board memory and with the proper server of
course..

I am not a gamer but I read so much that 8mB video memory is
obsolete these days; so I bought an AGP Creative CT5832-NVidia RIVA TNT2
with 32mB RAM.. I haven't tried it because it doesn't boot on that machine
so I'm wondering if it would be worth pursuing further.. (It works on
another machine so it's not defective; possibly a compatibility issue.)

The subject machine has a Duron 1300 CPU and 512mB PC100 system
memory.. Heretofore it seems to work fine except I think the presentation
could be better, but not really sure.. Running Slackware v10.2, 2.6.13,
xorg.

Any comments?? Of course my Net searching brings up; "the more
memory the better." Maybe someone can point to a more detailed
tutorial??

TIA..
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Hal GNU/Linux - Slackware 10.2, 2.4.31
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