Re: The dreaded Dell GX260 Intel 845G Video Card
Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 13:33 -0500, Nelson Castillo a écrit :
> On Apr 8, 2005 1:21 PM, Aurélien Campéas <aurelien.campeas@uni.lu> wrote:
> > Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 13:15 -0500, Nelson Castillo a écrit :
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I had to upgrade the BIOS in a GX270 so it could work. There was a
> > > serious bug on it. I also had to increase the memory available to video.
> >
> > The provided patch works around the buggy bios, hence no need to flash
> > it (btw more recent DELL bioses are buggy in various respects).
>
> I'd prefer to flash the broken bios.
unfortunately it is not always possible to do that (especially when you
are working on some other -paranoïd and linux frightened- people's
machines) :(
also before I found the aforementioned patch, I read some web pages full
of people's experience with the flash-the-bios solution and it seemed
like it worked in some cases, and not in other cases (I don't have the
link unfortunately)
>
> > (the bug is : the bios always reports 1 Mb video Ram, even if you set it
> > to 8 Mb)
> >
> > ((please do not top-post))
>
> Sorry.
no problem
>
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