On Sunday 29 February 2004 01:02 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
->On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:54 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
->->Okay, it seems that since the Dell doesn't have a "true" soundcard that
it ->->uses shared memory. In BIOS (which it seems you can't change or at
least -> I've ->not been able to figure out a way to) that its set to only
1024k. -> Very small. ->I found the 845 patch, compiled it, put it in
/usr/bin, ran it -> with: ->
->->/usr/bin/845patch 32000
->->
->->I then used MCC to reset the rez and it worked! Great, now I've got a
full ->->screen.
->->
->->Rebooted. Back to the small screen. So...I stuck that line in
->->/etc/rc.d/rc.local as the same:
->->
->->/usr/bin/845patch 32000
->->
->->but for some reason, it doesn't work there.
->->
->->Am I doing the syntax wrong? Thanks.
->->
->
->Just wanted to add that what I've read seems to indicate that this patch
needs ->to run before the xserver starts.
->
->Could that be the problem since rc.local is the last script to run? If so,
->what would be the best place to put this patch? Thanks again.
Argh. Found more info at the Dell Linux community website. Seems there's an
RPM for the 845 patch. <sigh>
and they recommend putting it (the compiled version) in /sbin instead of
/usr/bin. Then issuing the following:
Configure your system to start the patch automatically at bootup. Switch to
the root user (type su) and then:
* For a Redhat-like system.
echo "/sbin/845patch 10000" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
I'm off to go try that now.
PS So whats the record on replying to and maintaining a msg thread you started
yourself? <grin>
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