Thanks a lot for your response, Branden. More than that, thanks for all your work in this area.
|> In XFree86 4.0.1, at least, the amount of video RAM available |> allocated in the absence of a VideoRam line on i810 machines was |> something like 512kB. |> |> Too little for most people's purposes. OK, do I understand from this that, for i810 controllers at least, the amount of video RAM can be set, in principle, as one likes? This is what I gathered from some of the posts I read, but it's not obvious from the documentation at the XFree86 site. |> > On a separate (I think) matter: there's a slight but annoying |> > flicker at the moment on the screen. How might I eliminate this? |> |> Don't know about that. |> |> What refresh rate is being used? In the config file: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Generic Monitor" HorizSync 28-49 VertRefresh 43-72 Option "DPMS" EndSection >From the log-file: (--) I810(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024) (**) I810(0): Default mode "1024x768": 65.0 MHz, 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz (II) I810(0): Modeline "1024x768" 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync Thank you very much, Jim