RE: Screen resolution with onboard graphics card
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Greene [mailto:akgreene@wam.umd.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:48 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Screen resolution with onboard graphics card
>
>
> Hi all,
> I am trying to run debian on a machine with an onboard
> graphics processor.
> When I run startx, the best resolution I can get is 640x480.
> I've heard
> of ways of borrowing system memory to use for graphical memory, but I
> can't really find out how to do this. Any tips?
>
> Thanks much,
> Aaron Greene
>
>
What type of motherboard is it?
I have an IBM system with one of the newer Intel mother boards (built-in
video and ethernet), and the amount of RAM the video cards "borrows" was
configurable in the BIOS. You should probably check that first.
-Jason
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