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
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