On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Christopher Thom wrote: > 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 Thanks. I'll look into that. I have the 4.3.0 source tree installed and verified that I can compile it so maybe I can try giving this a go now. > 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.... Thanks for your help. I will definitely continue looking/asking for a BIOS because that would definitely be the easiest way to fix the problem. -Kipp _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
