On Sunday 29 Sep 2002 12:02 am, Sreangsu Acharyya wrote: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > I did the same for a RedHat 7.3 installation recently. I basically said > > > no to the suggested driver and went ahead and selected Vesa followed by > > > saying Yes to probe card. > > > > What are the resolutions and colour depth you could get. > > I once tried in a machine and I could get only 16 bit at 640x480 > > If everything else seems ok, then check the amount of videoram extracted > from your Xserver logs. Bios on Dell machines are notorious for giving > only 1mb which is a bit tight for resolutions higher than 640x480. A > Xserver patch is available to steal mem from the bios. I seem to have lost > the link. If you have this bios problem, look up the archives, i had posted > the link on some intel 830 or 845 thread
I tried in a desktop assembled. There also I could get only 640x480 at 16bits. If it is bios is there a provision to change it? any clues how to change? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA ------------------------------------------------------- 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
