Re: i845

[Aurélien Campéas <aurelien.campeas@uni.lu>]

Le lundi 09 mai 2005 à 09:16 -0500, Kent West a écrit :
> debian wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have debian installed on a new pc (P4, 512mb ram, intel onboard i845).
> > Everything works, i installed latest kernel (2.6.8.11), i have i810 as
> > driver in my XF86config file but the problem is that i only can use
> > 1024x768 with a default depth of 8.
> >
> > If i take 16, then i go back to 640x480.
> >
> > Now, this card should be a problem about this because the vga card is
> > using ram frow the computer and has no (or almost none) own memory.
> >
> > Anyone knows how i can solve this so that i have higher resolution
> > with a depth of 16 ?
> >
> >
> Sounds like your BIOS is reporting too small an amount of Video RAM;
> look in the BIOS for a RAM memory setting and see if you can increase it.
> 
> (If you have a Dell, they had a buggy BIOS on at least one system that
> misreported the amount of available video RAM, so even if you set it to
> 8 in the BIOS, it still only reported 1 to the OS.)

if this is the case, just have a look there :
http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html


> 
> 
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. --
William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"


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