why aren't the windows drivers affected? they must be a way around it without needing a new bios... The same thing was claimed the last time around with the 830s and dell never fixed the bios, but someone came up with a work around.
Alex --- Hope Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > The patches will not work do to a limitation in the > Dell system BIOS and Intel VBIOS. Dell locks their > pre-allocated (once called stolen) memory at 1MB and > therefore you will be limited in modes on Linux since > the VBIOS limits its modes to the amount of > pre-allocated memory. Intel has implemented a > workaround, but it would require Dell to implement one > of Intel’s latest VBIOS drops in there systems BIOS > and then update the system BIOS. I would expect any > 855 release of system BIOS from Dell in the next 2 > months to have the VBIOS that allows the Xserver to > report memory it allocated to the VBIOS and the modes > could be adjusted. > > Best regards, > > Hope Merritt, III > Intel Corporation > Software Applications Engineer > Desk: 916-356-0936 > Text: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
