Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 01:11:37 -0800 From: "squigly@flashmail.com" <squigly@flashmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: (No subject header) Message-ID: <41bab9c9.2af.7c4.426@flashmail.com>
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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. ---- Yep, I've stumbled upon some threads regarding the buggy 865 (specificly with dell, not HP, but I guess it's quite similar). the bizzar thing is that dmesg does state an 8Mb ram, it should give me plenty of room to play, but nothing (no res/depth combination) seems to work. I'm guessing throwing in a cheap 16Mb video card should bypass the problem, but it seems like quiting. I'll try updating BIOS version and see where I can get. can you point me to specific BSD patch for this issue?
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