On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 03:14:59PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I just upgraded a Dell Optiplex with the onboard i810 graphics > controller from potato to woody. > > It's great to have integrated support for the i810, rather than having > to futz around downloading special drivers from Intel. > > I have one question: is there any advantage to be gained from > explicitly setting a value for VideoRam in the "Device" section? > Nothing in the docs at the Xfree site suggest this, but I've seen > recommendations here and there on the net that it can be a good > idea. The log at present reports: > > (II) I810(0): I810CheckAvailableMemory: 95228k available > (==) I810(0): Will alloc AGP framebuffer: 8192 kBytes In XFree86 4.0.1, at least, the amount of video RAM available allocated in the absence of a VideoRam line on i810 machines was something like 512kB. Too little for most people's purposes. Maybe this is different now? > On a separate (I think) matter: there's a slight but annoying flicker > at the moment on the screen. How might I eliminate this? Don't know about that. What refresh rate is being used? -- G. Branden Robinson | The noble soul has reverence for Debian GNU/Linux | itself. branden@debian.org | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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