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Subject: Re: xorg/xfree on intel 865G (HP evo d530)
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>
> On Friday, 10. December 2004 17:57, squigly@flashmail.com
> > wrote: I've seen a few (too few) post on this subject
> > but no answers.
> >
> > I have a HP EVO d530 with integrated VGA adapter based
> > on the intel 865G (using the i810 module).
> >
> > I get the following error message when starting X:
> >
> > (EE) I810(0): No Video BIOS modes for chosen depth.
> > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable
> configuration.
> 
> From the i810 manpage:
> 
>        The  driver  makes use of the video BIOS to program
> video modes for the
>        830M and later.  This limits the video modes that
> can be used to  those
>        provided  by the video BIOS, and to those that will
> fit into the amount
>        of video memory that the video BIOS is aware of.
> 
> So, have you tried some rather low resolutions with low
> colordepth (like  640x480 in 8bpp) as well? If something
> like that worked you could try higher  res and higher
> colordepths.
> 

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?
the 865G does state (via dmesg) that it has 8Mb of bios ram.
Is that my limit?