On 11 Jun 2002, Henri Muurimaa wrote: >Date: 11 Jun 2002 11:51:36 +0300 >From: Henri Muurimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain >List-Id: General X Discussion <xpert.XFree86.Org> >Subject: Re: Support for DVMT (dynamic video memory technology)? > >>It is specifically a problem in the laptop's BIOS. There are >>Dell laptops that suffer from this shortcoming as well. So it >>isn't an XFree86 bug, but rather the lack of a certain "feature" >>that shouldn't need to exist in the first place if they made the >>laptop BIOS correct in the first place. Thats how I understand >>it anyway. > >Yes, this is how I see it as well. > >I contacted Intel about this, and they said that they are considering to >release the needed information here: >http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/manuals/ > >The person who answered my questions didn't know for sure if the specs >will be released, or when. > >I've also tried to contact HP about this, but since only Windows is >officially supported, they are reluctant to update the BIOS to include >the required switch to select reserved video memory amount. > >>If believe the XiG X server works around this issue, so it >>should be possible for someone familiar with the driver to add >>support as well given access to the necessary docs from Intel, etc. > >The Intel rep said that they'd rather release the spec to the public >than to a select group of people with NDA's. Hope they don't decide not >to release the spec... > >Please keep me in the CC list in replies, as I'm not subscribed to the >list.
Someone submitted a patch to workaround this problem a day or so ago. It is currently untested, but I am building new RPM packages for internal testing on a C400. Rawhide 4.2.0-50.17 also has the workaround in it. Again, no idea if it works or not, or if it is a proper long-term solution. Hopefully Intel will release the docs also. -- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
