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&#8217;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]
> 

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