Quoth Kipp Cannon: > This is a request for help with an i830 video interface in a Gateway > laptop (Solo 1450). Everything had been working happily in this system > until I "upgraded" my BIOS. This laptop has some power management > difficiencies I hoped would be addressed in the BIOS update. Anyway... > the BIOS update has changed the laptop's video BIOS somehow so that it > now thinks there's only 1MB of video ram installed when infact there's yep, this is a common problem with systems using intel's integrated graphics - most commonly laptops. My dell laptop has this exact same problem. It IS a BIOS problem. The bios is only pre-allocating 1MB of system memory at bootup, instead of 8 (as you want). > (II) I810(0): detected 892 kB stolen memory. > (II) I810(0): I830CheckAvailableMemory: 206844 kB available > (**) I810(0): DRI is disabled because it runs only at depths 16 and 24. > (II) I810(0): Will attempt to tell the BIOS that there is 8128 kB VideoRAM > (WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f11 not supported. This tells you that it's a BIOS problem. The i810/i830 driver is attempting to tell the BIOS is got more memory. This is required since the driver uses the BIOS to programme the video modes. There is a patch here: http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html but unfortunately, it's Dell-specific. You may be able to modify it to your needs. This patch has been included in the XFree86 source, but I don't know whether it's been generalised to all hardware (or is still dell specific). There more info here: http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html It doesn't solve your problem immediately, but it's a known problem with this hardware. Probably your best bet is really to get the old BIOS from gateway - maybe dig on their ftp site? sometimes they leave old versions lying about.... cheers chris -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | TELESCOPE, n. | | A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the | | telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a | | multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell | | summoning us to the sacrifice. | | -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
