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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@lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt@FreeBSD.org