On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > I am currently running Debian woody with X 4.1.0. I have a P4 with > intel845 on board agp. The problem is I am not able to get a better > resolution than 800x600. It looks ugly on 17" monitor.
Check how much video ram is being allocated by the bios and how much is X able to get. You will be able to get them from dmesg and looking at the Xfree86 log files at /var/log. We had quite a bit of problem with a dell laptop and its nogood Bios. It would allocate only 1Mb for video ram and you could do nothing about it. Even BIOS upgrade didnt help. On 1mb you cant do much, so even if you have the correct modelines, they will be deleted because of insufficient memory. By the way its only on 4.2 that we could atkeast run X. Though intel kept on saying its the bios' fault, windows did manage to run with higher resolution with the same bios, which led to a lot of raving and ranting. But finally some one managed to patch X-4.2 to bypass the Bios restriction and run X. I am not sure whether this has patch has been merged into the latest CVS, so you might need to apply the patch your self. You would need the vanilla 2.4.18 kernel to make the modules compile cleanly. Dont know, if this is the source of your problem but sending the link anyway http://www.jongans.com/1mb-stolen-fix.diff http://www.jongans.com/agpgart-I845G-fix-2.4.19-pre9.diff We had to jockey between kernel versions a bit, the final result was i guess the 2.4.18 kernel with some 2.4.19 modules, but it worked. In short patch your kernel with the agpart patch, and then X4.2 with the memory stealing patch. Hunt in google groups, you should get some documentation there. -- sreangsu ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
