>>>>> "TD" == Thomas Dodd <ted@cypress.com> writes: TD> What exactly is the problem with the i830? In my experience, XFree 4.2.x supports the i830 fine, but the chipset uses a unified memory architecture where the video memory is shared with main RAM. The BIOS can be set to "steal" a certain amount of memory for the graphics chip; Intel specifies that you must be able to steal at least 8MB. The BIOS in some Dell i830-based laptops is broken and lets you steal only 1MB, which isn't enough to do anything useful. XFree CVS can allocate the needed memory via AGP. I built XFree from CVS a while back and have a couple of working C400 laptops without upgrading the kernel. (At the time, 2.4.18-10 was current.) One of those machines even runs Red Hat 7.3. DRI (and hence accelerated 3D) isn't working, but everything else is fine including suspend/resume. - J< _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
