> I recently purchased a Sony Vaio PCG-R505DL laptop. It uses the Intel > 830M graphics chipset. I've gotten X working, by installing a new > 2.4.18 kernel with the AGP GART module, and XFree86 4.2.0. > > I can only get 8-bit color at 1024x728 however. The Intel documentation > on their website says that the Linux driver for the 830M chipset only > allows the video memory set aside by the bios as 'legacy' memory to be > used. I'm wondering if anyone knows if there are any plans to fix this. > I'd sure like to have better than 8-bit color.
>From `man i810` <snip> The i810 has a unified memory architecture and uses system memory for video ram. By default 8 Megabytes of system memory are used for graphics. This amount may be changed with the VideoRam entry in the config file Device section. It may be set to any power of two between 4 and 32 Megabytes inclusive to allow the user to customize the balance between main memory usage and graphics performance. Too little memory reserved for graphics can result in decreased 3D and 2D graphics performance and features. <snip> Does this help? Neil Leathers _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
