Andy Goth wrote:I have the same problem on a Dell D500 (I posted a message some time ago), but unlike the IBM, the Dell BIOS doesn't have the option to increase video memory, so I'm stuck with 8 bit. In the XFree86 documentation it is said that my only hope is a BIOS upgrade from the manufacturer, but I am wondering why Windows happily manages to ignore the BIOS setting, and Linux doesn't. Is there really nothing that can be done from the Linux side - I'm afraid by the time Dell considers a BIOS upgrade, the computer will be obsolete.
It could be that it's only prepared to take between 768 KiB and 937
KiB of system RAM, or at least that's what the BIOS mode list's
ModeAttributes's MODE_SUPPORTED field suggests.
Ah ha, the BIOS. It turns out that there is a BIOS option for video
memory. It was set to 1024k. (I guess Windows is able to happily
ignore this setting.) I raised it to 8192k, and now 1024x768 works in
16bpp. Thanks.
Peter
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