First, I'm fairly new to Linux and any explanation will need to be specific. My friend just bought a Laptop (Dell Inspiron 2600) and she is using it for Windows XP and linux. With some struggle, I was finally able to get it to dual boot. Anyways, my problem is, when she boots to Linux, the highest resolution I can set it to is 640X480, which really sucks! It has a 32mb shared memory, i830 chipset video card. I was able to do Some research and found the problem, even though I don't fully understand it. It's something like, BIOS only supports 1mb legacy (whatever the heck that means), so Linux only recognizes 1mb of memory on the videocard. I found out there's a patch called i830_driver-1mb-stolen-hack.patch but how the heck do I get it and install it? I'm not even sure what version of XFree86 is on it. The OS is RedHat 7.3. and I have the source disks too. Does that mean the laptop has version 4.2.0 of XFree86? Can anyone tell me step by step how to fix the problem? -Ryan __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
