Quoth Jay R. Ashworth: > 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. To be fair, it's probably more like the "Stupid DELL + a few other manufacturers BIOS bug". It's up to the manufacturer to produce a (working) BIOS for the memory stuff. Intel could be a little stronger in their requirements though :-/ > 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. It could just be that more laptops than desktops use these chips. I know my problem as with my laptop. > 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. You should also read this: http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html and this: http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html Patches have been ioncorporated into CVS, so you could also try the 4.4 release candidate for a fix. It shouldn't be too hard a porblem to solve... xheers 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
