Hello, I had to change in the BIOS of my Acer TravelMate 280 the memory assigned to the graphics adapter to 8 MB, default was 1 MB. After that the high color resolutions started working.
Cheers, Andreas > Hi, > > I just bought a new Dell Laptop. It's an Inspiron 500m with the > Pentium M, integrated Intel graphics and an 1400x1050 display. > > I installed Linux and access on the command line works fine. Now I > wanted to configure X but ran into loads of trouble. I downloaded the > latest Intel drivers, compiled and installed them. I'm using X version > 4.2.1-8 from Debian unstable (the rest of the system is from unstable, > as well). My kernel is version 2.4.21. I tried Daniel Stone's 4.3.0 > packages as well but they don't work with the Intel drivers. > > The Intel driver installs the two kernel modules agpgart and i830. > Both work find and lsmod shows they're installed. But with all this, I > can only get X to work with a maximum resolution of 1024x768 at 8bit > color or 640x480 at 16bit color. > > When I choose more colors (i.e. 24bit) X doesn't work at all, it just > dies. What's the problem? Any suggestions, experiences, questions? I > attached all files and messages I though could be relevant. > > Best regards, > Magnus
