On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 07:46:54PM -0800, Eric Nelson wrote: > On Sunday 20 January 2002 04:01 pm, you wrote: > > Keywords: X, XFree86, XF86Config, XConfigurator, ct69000, embedded system > > Thanks for the reply. > > Since the last posting, I upgraded to 4.1.0. Now, X won't even come up. I > have the correct values for my terminal. It looks like the system thinks > there is only 256K on the card, and it can't find a mode, even not enough ram > for 320x200, so it fails. > > It could be a bios problem, this is a custom system, built for a specific > project, and an early version of the bios. I started to think that I could > by a new cpu board and have something that works for all the hours I'm > putting in. So I don't want to waste peoples time, until I have a problem > that is real, at least. :~).
Okay, but you might as well try explicitly declaring the amount of video RAM
in the configuration file. Example from my /etx/X11/XF86Config-4:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "glint"
VideoRam 8192
EndSection
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