On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:45:52PM +0100, Christoph Jäger wrote: > The system has an Intel i865G graphics chip (onboard) with no separate > graphics memory (should use the system's main memory). As far as I can > see, although I changed teh BIOS settings to reserve 8MB of memory for > graphics, what the X-server finds is only 1MB (in the end, it find 832kB > of usable memory). So I can only get it to work in 640x480, which is > quite unsatisfying on a 20" TFT, which can do 1600x1200. > I would be very glad if someone could give me a hint of what to do to > finally get my new system up and running. I believe the current received wisdom is "sue Dell". You have, AFAICT, the dreaded "Stupid Intel BIOS Bug", which limits the memory to 1MB no matter what you tell it. Come to think of it, perhaps I was mistaken in telling the other guy silly enough to be playing with X on New Year's Day that it was mostlya laptop problem. Check the mailing list archives for the last month or month and a half, at www.xfree86.org; there's more technical detail there than you really want to know about. Take Dramamine first. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@xxxxxxxxxxx Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 Come see Linux Gazette in our new home: www.linuxgazette.net! _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
