Peter, I have the Dell D400 and am threatening to RMA it if Dell doesn't commit in writing to changing the bios to support at least 8 MB of VGA RAM allocation on bootup. I'm going to be on the phone with Dell support people for an inordinate amount of time. Intel's Support Page for Linux Video drivers paints a pathetic picture that vendors need supply BIOS update at their discretion. http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/linux/graphics.htm
Without xfree86, the laptop is worthless to me. -- Jon On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:25:23PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote: > Peter Schilke writes: > > Hi, > > > > I have been trying to install Linux (SuSE 8.2) on a Dell Latitude D500. > > It uses XFree86 4.3.0, so it should be able to deal with the 855GM > > chipset, but it seems to get only 892 kB of video memory, which mens I > > can run only with 8 Bit, which is uncacceptable. Here is the message I > > get during startup: > > > > Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann > > agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 438M > > agpgart: Detected an Intel(R) 855GM Chipset. > > agpgart: Detected 892K stolen memory. > > agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000 > > > > I'd appreciate any help with this! > > > > Peter > > > > (II) I810(0): detected 892 kB stolen memory. > > (II) I810(0): I830CheckAvailableMemory: 448508 kB available > > (**) I810(0): DRI is disabled because it runs only at depths 16 and 24. > > (II) I810(0): Will attempt to tell the BIOS that there is 8128 kB VideoRAM > > (WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f11 not supported. > > (II) I810(0): BIOS view of memory size can't be changed (this is not an error). _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
