"Christopher Z. Collier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > 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.
Check out my page about X on the Dell C400: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/c400.html Your machine has exactly the same problem (as has the Asus L1 series). Blame Intel for not releasing the programming specs to the chipset. Only way to fix that problem at the moment is to reverse engineer the mode set code in the Video BIOS, which is a bit tedious (but maybe I get around to it eventually...) Cheers, Manuel PS: Who knows, maybe they get a cut from the sales of Xi Graphics' X server, which runs fine on the chipset (so obviously it also circumvents the Video BIOS). PPS: If anybody has some good friends at Intel, let me know ;-) _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
