Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: i830M video chip (X driver deficient) | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 12 Apr 2002 01:37:49 -0600 |
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Blue Lang <blue@b-side.org> writes:
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Michael De Nil wrote: > > > i searched on the intel-website, which told me hat i should be able to > > change this setting in my bios. *not* > > > > can't i reserve any more ram myselve by selecting linux only to use 256 - > > 8 Meg or something @ boot-time ? > > the dell c400 has this same problem. there is an excellent web page on one > person's experiences with it, but i can't find it right now.. anyways, his > result was that the bios was actually broken and that it would take a f/w > update from Dell to fix it. a little googling should yield the results you > want. > > i assume it's probably the same situation with your laptop.
It isn't memory related at all. The problem is that the X driver uses the video BIOS to set the display modes, instead of setting the display mode by itself as it should. I don't know if there are enough docs available from intel about this but that is the problem.
I have a coworker with one of these and I tracked problem down that far. With agpgart the kernel allocates the rest of the memory for X as needed.
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