"Ulrik Kjems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > What I would like to ask you is, do you know of any way to alter the amount > of stolen memory, for instance from the initialization inside the agpgart > module ? See e.g. > http://xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2001-December/014388.html which > unfortunately does not work... What I mean is that since Windows is able to > change to the desired video mode, it should be possible to persuade the BIOS > post-boot.
AFAIK, Windows does it by simply ignoring the BIOS and programming the chipset directly to change the video mode. This would be possible in the XFree86 driver, too (in fact, the i810 driver does it this way) *if* Intel where to release the programmer's reference manual for the i810M graphic controller, which they haven't so far :-/ The alternative is to disassemble the relevant portions of the Video BIOS to reverse engineer the needed chipset programming. That's, however, going to be much more time consuming. So, if anybody has good contacts to Intel, that could help us. Cheers, Manuel _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
