This is my first time posting to the list as I have never had to use
such new hardware J.  We are getting the latest source from cvs now, but
while we wait for it, I thought it would be a good idea to post, since
I'm really not sure what the problem is
 
At any rate, We have a gateway laptop: 305X  Model #m305crv which has
the Intel 852GM chipset (http://orpheus.music.uh.edu/~justin/gateway) .
We cannot get more than 800x600 at 16bpp.  I know the following patch is
not specifically for 852GM, but:
 
8 October 2003:
A patch based on Christian Zietz's code to tell the video BIOS about
extra video memory that has been allocated was committed to the XFree86
CVS trunk. This should help with many 825GM/855GM laptops that were
previously limited to video modes requiring less than 1MB of video
memory.
 
Does this have anything to do with what is going on?  Here is some more
information (also, go to http://orpheus.music.uh.edu/~justin/gateway for
a dmesg and the kernel config file )
 
 
David Dawes said on http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/845driver.html (Last
modified: 20 October 2003), that other platforms other than LINUX,
FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, were not tested.  I may send this to him, but
I thought it more appropriate to start on the xfree86 list.

We have used this patch and still cannot >800x600 @ 16bpp 
 
 
Thanks,

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