The way I got my i810 boards to work was to select the intel i740 graphics
cards (supposably 4 meg of video ram), then select the monitor from the
Drak config tool. Click test, then it skips the memory back down to 2 meg
as it's supposed to be, bam, I give you 16x1024x768 without editing XF86Config.
-David Talbot
At 07:24 PM 6/26/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Here's what I had to do for my I810 on LM 7.1 to get 1024x768 at 16 bits:
>
>Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config:
>
> Find the "Device" section that has an ID of Intel 810
> Add the following lines to it:
> VideoRam 2048
> Chipset "i810"
> Vendor "Intel"
> Find the section "Screen" for "Driver" "svga"
> Find the subsection within it that says depth 16
> Add 1024x768 to the listed resolutions.
>
> Save it, logoff and restart the X server.
> Go into Drakconf and select Change X resolution.
> Select 1024x768 at 16 bits.
>
>If you are running LM 7.0, I'm not sure this will work because I don't think
>the i810 driver is available by default. Take a look at support.intel.com
>for the driver and instructions on how to load it.
>
>- Ralph
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jason Angus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 7:23 AM
>Subject: [newbie] Graphics Card Question
>
>
>> Just installed Mandrake 7 this weekend - the install
>> went rather smooth (had to do it twice) - but those
>> were errors on my part.
>>
>> I have an Intel 810 video card with AGP - and cannot
>> seem to get the resolution or graphics just right with
>> it. I have looked on some news groups and found
>> others with the same problem. I can not seem to get a
>> better resolution that 640 x 800! It works but that
>> is just a little too big for me. Any suggestions?
>>
>> If it matter - here is the run down on the rest of my
>> system:
>>
>> Dell Deminsion L500C
>> Celeron 500 mhz
>> 64 mb ram
>> 6 gig HD - linux has a 1.5 gig/ windows 98 has the
>> rest.
>> The video card is built into the mother board...
>>
>> Any help you could send this newbies way would much be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
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