I was running X a while back and I pondered the 24 bitness of the
video card/LCD in my 3200. I decided to try to run X in full colors and
it worked, but sadly it was 800x600 stretched to fit a 1024x768 display.
This lead me to think that the display is ONLY 1024x768. I dropped X and
reran with 640x480 and got the same crappiness. I was curious if it's
just me or is it actually the case? I run quake and it looks fine, but
then, there are no really fine straight lines around to check it out.
Downloaded the newest XFCom-NeoMagic-glibc rpm(2.0.0 if you don't have it
already) and it's still funny. I also pulled an svgalib apple2 emulator
(ok, I'm a freak), and it did the same thing. For now I guess I'll just
have to run this little bugger at 1024x768x16 and be happy(which isn't
hard to do).
Also, I went and downloaded the BIOS upgrade from A07 to A09 off
Dell's site and borrowed someone's NT machine to spit it out on a disk.
(Sad that they don't just make an .img.gz for us that don't use Windows,
but oh well.) Anyway, I was running at 265.42 (what's everyone else
running at btw? I'm on a P2 266 w/ 144ram) and after the upgrade I'm
running at 264.60. I may just reload my old A07 or pull A01 off their
site and run that. Maybe I'll get an extra BogoMIP out of it(heh). It
just boggles me as to how a BIOS upgrade could reduce CPU speed. And the
BogoMIPS test is incredibly precise. It's always been 265.42 as long as
I've been running Linux, through several installs, and several different
kernels. The upgrade said it made a couple CPU registers available or
something, but I can't imaging that slowing a processor down.
-- A09 readme.txt
The Inspiron 3200 A09 System BIOS is based on the A08 System BIOS, and
contains the following modifications:
1. Add new microcode (rev 2) to support Intel errata for A0, B0 CPU
stepping.
2. NeoMagic VGA BIOS Rev 1.12.
3. Disable DIM screen mode feature when Power Management is set to
'Disabled'.
4. Corrected ZIP drive detection upon system warm restart.
5. Fixed system issue when Win98 is installed from bootable CD and HDD has
no partition.
6. Corrected Dell QuietKey external keyboard failure after resume from
Suspend2Ram.
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One last thing. Does anyone know where you get the driver that
allows the suspend-to-disk drive selector? I made a 200 meg ms-dos
partition just so I dink with the suspend-to-disk in Linux. I'm thinking
it will just crash, but maybe not hmm? It would be nice to be able to
leave my computer in suspend mode without external power for more than a
few hours. Well, more than 5 or however many it lasts.
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