It seems some recent Dell machines have the amount of video memory available set to 1MB by default. The desktop machines allow you to set this in the BIOS, but the laptops don't seem to allow you to adjust this. Christian Zietz has a hack for Linux that convinces the BIOS to let you use more memory, and I've just ported his hack to FreeBSD. Christian's code is at: http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html and my patch to his code, and a binary compiled for 4.9 are at: http://www.cnri.dit.ie/~dwmalone/855patch/ You can just run "855patch 8192" before starting X, and suddenly you can do a resolution higher than 640x480 in 8 bit mode ;-) David.Received on Wed Oct 08 2003 - 08:10:47 UTC
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