On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:01:31AM -0700, Hope Merritt 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.
Another problem I get a lot of reports about is that the VBIOS doesn't support video modes like 1400x1050, the panel resolution used by a number of laptops. David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
