David Dawes wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:35:52AM -0500, Oliver Wong wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >I recently purchased a Dell D400, which suffers from a BIOS only > >allocating <1MB of legacy video memory (stolen memory) to the integrated > >graphics... I believe the Dell 500m and other 855GM laptops suffer from > >this as well. The BIOS also does not provide the appropriate mechanisms > >for the current drivers to change that. > > > >Researching, I found that the Dell C400 and other similar laptops had > >this problem too (with an older chipset), but a work around was written > >(by Abraham vd Merwe?). Does anyone know if a similar work around could > >be applied to the 855GM's? Or is the chipset radically different so that > >that fix will not work? > > That method didn't work on the test hardware I had access to when > adding the 855GM support. The driver does implement a new method > for informing the video BIOS about additional memory allocations, > but I haven't seen any evidence of production hardware implementing > it yet. > > You could try the attached patch, which should enable the old 830M > method for all platforms, and let me know if it works. It's possible > that Dell has the old method implemented in their video BIOS. > > If it doesn't work, you'll need to follow it up with Dell.
Alright, thanks David. I haven't gotten my D400 in yet, but it should be arriving soon (expected delivery is tomorrow). Does anyone else have a D400 out there that could give this a try? Since I won't even have a linux distro on mine for a little while. -Oliver > > David > -- > David Dawes > Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project > www.XFree86.org/~dawes > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > biosmem.diffName: biosmem.diff > Type: Plain Text (text/plain) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
