Thanks a bunch for the update Hope! In the mean time, I've resorted to using debian as the guest OS in VMWare, works out pretty nicely in fact. (I get to use the 802.11g card, and XP's suspend/hibernate/power management! =)
-Oliver Hope Merritt wrote: > > All, > > The patches will not work do to a limitation in the > Dell system BIOS and Intel VBIOS. Dell locks their > pre-allocated (once called stolen) memory at 1MB and > therefore you will be limited in modes on Linux since > the VBIOS limits its modes to the amount of > pre-allocated memory. Intel has implemented a > workaround, but it would require Dell to implement one > of Intel's latest VBIOS drops in there systems BIOS > and then update the system BIOS. I would expect any > 855 release of system BIOS from Dell in the next 2 > months to have the VBIOS that allows the Xserver to > report memory it allocated to the VBIOS and the modes > could be adjusted. > > Best regards, > > Hope Merritt, III > Intel Corporation > Software Applications Engineer > Desk: 916-356-0936 > Text: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
