On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 03:41, Damien Solley wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 15:06, Magnus von Koeller wrote: > > On Thursday 11 September 2003 06:00, you wrote: > > > Hi Magnus > > > Do you have anywhere that I can find an (English) description of > > > this patch? I am not sure what it is patching, or what > > > procedure/flags it requires to compile/install. > > > > http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html > > I'll just reiterate what I posted to the Dell forum. > The patch/workaround does look promising... but complains about not > detecting an 855 chipset when I run it... If anyone has the knowledge to > hack the driver so that it'll just allocate the RAM, it should work. > Reading through the docs, it seems that it should 'just work' with the > i810 module (which the I845 chipset also uses). Perhaps just disabling > the chipset detection would work? > If anyone is willing to, and capable of, hacking this package, I would > be glad to hear about it. I could post the patch to my Inspiron page at: > http://geocities.com/randomnumbergenerator2001/
I tried disabling the chipset detection, and it still didn't work for me. I think the video memory offsets/registers will be different for the different chipsets, and so I need those numbers. But I don't know where to get them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
