Michelle,
I have the same problem as you , I have a Dell
Inspiron 1100, and everything is working fine, except the DISPLAY
settings.
I haven?t found any other
information to resolve it. I'll keep my eyes open and PRAY that the new version
coming out soon will support it
or at least find a alternative solution for
it.
Murray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shadoe" <shadoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 7:52
AM
Subject: Dell Inspiron 1100 (yes, the A22
BIOS, Intel 845G Chipset, and 1 measly mb of ram)
> I have a Dell i1100 laptop with the dreaded new BIOS that hard codes the
> 1M ram for video.
> So far I have read a million things from folks using LINUX who were able
> to use a patch to fix their issue. However, what of FreeBSD? I had read
> that theat patch was included in the recent snapshots of X so I
> installed that on the laptop, but a) I'm unclear how to enable it and
> b) am unsure if its meant to work on FreeBSD at all. I am running 4.9-R
> and have agpgart loading at boot. it detects the intel (Intel 82845G
> (845G GMCH) and makes some comment about 892m stolen memory and 128M
> aperture size.
> Well when i start X i dont see anything referring to allocating any ram,
> i tried setting the videoram in XF86Config, no change, I dont know how
> the patch is supposed to work, or how to enable it so I dont know if
> its just NOT working, or if its not working because I havent enabled it
> somehow. At any rate, currently I have a choice of 1024x768 at a lovely
> depth of 8, or a really gorgeous 4x6 box at 16 or 24 :)
>
> Any help would be really great!
> Thanks!
> Michelle
>
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