On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 10:10, David Malone wrote: > 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 ;-) I'm pretty sure code got included in XFree86 a week or so ago to accomplish this. I'll be updating XFree86-4-Server-snap when I can so people can try this out. -- Eric Anholt eta_at_lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt_at_FreeBSD.orgReceived on Sat Oct 11 2003 - 17:43:54 UTC
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