James,
X_VIDEORAM = 3068 works fine. Thanks for your help.
John
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To: John Ingleby
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Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] XF86Conf problems with Book PC
John,
I've got
John,
I've got a new answer and I think it is the best way to handle this.
It turns out that you just need to tell XFree86 4.1.0 to use less
memory on the video card.
You noticed that it was trying to use 8192k of memory and reported
that only 3068 was available. So, the thing to do is tell
X
Many thanks for the rapid replies. It was easiest to insert 64Mb RAM, and
the Book PC works fine on that. Still very noisy though, that's probably
what killed it as a "Home Entertainment Centre".
I'll try the other suggestions when using up the leftover 32Mb RAM!
John
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Or you can do like I did a long time ago and hack a custom version of
the kernel for those workstations which increases the minimum allocated
memory in 16-32MB RAM size from 4MB allocated (3MB realized) to 10MB
allocated (9MB realized). It's in the agpgart.c/h files in the kernel
source. Hav
John,
The only fix I've seen for the i810 and agp memory is
to increase system memory on the workstation. 64mb will
work just fine.
It does seem that there should be a better way to fix it though.
You might try adding 'VideoRam 4096' in your XF86Config file.
As for the mouse problem, you will
John,
Are you sure the i810 is the one you need? Did you try and add
modest X_MODE_0 and X_COLOR_DEPTH options to experiment with?
You can always increment their values afterwards up to the point
where the errors start showing again. Then you will know you
squeezed the maximum out of your scr