Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:45:13 -0800 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg/xfree on intel 865G (HP evo d530) Message-ID: <1102715113.2135.26.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <200412101902.31480.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <41b9dff9.33c.1194.14946@flashmail.com> <200412101902.31480.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 19:02 +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Friday, 10. December 2004 18:42, squigly@flashmail.com wrote: > > > Well, I did try several configuration, I don't remember if I > > tried that combo, I will give it a try. but, I've set the > > AGP aparture size to 128MB, isn't that suppose to give the > > ability to go to higher res and depth? > > No. > > > the 865G does state (via dmesg) that it has 8Mb of bios ram. > > Is that my limit? Actually, it gets worse. A lot of i8xx bioses are buggy, so that you get limited to 1MB of video memory instead of 8MB, as far as the bios's mode selection is concerned. I don't know if your specific chipset is susceptible, but you might check. With various hacks floating around the net you can whack the bios into thinking it has the correct amount of video memory. With luck that'll get integrated into X.Org at some point, but nobody's done the work yet, that I know of. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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