On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:44, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > Greetings: > > I am running a mixed testing/unstable setup on a Dell system with the > Intel 865G onboard graphics device. I installed the latest Xfree86 > packages 4.3.0-5 and everything works fine with one exception: I still > need to run the 865patch program to reserve video memory prior to > starting the X server. The changelog comments in xserver-xfree86 > incicate that this should no longer be the case. > I'm not sure, if even XFree86 4.4 can work around all broken Dell Bioses...
Well you could give it try: Basically, it should be sufficient to replace the following files (make a backup of the old ones) /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o with those found at http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ See, if it works better then... - Christian
