This may be a naive questiom, but how does that *other* popular graphical user environment get around the BIOS limitation? Do they have access to documentation of system API calls that xfree, inc doesn't know about? Is intel not giving all the info? -- Jon
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:25:23PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote: > Peter Schilke writes: > > Hi, > > > > I have been trying to install Linux (SuSE 8.2) on a Dell Latitude D500. > > It uses XFree86 4.3.0, so it should be able to deal with the 855GM > > chipset, but it seems to get only 892 kB of video memory, which mens I > > can run only with 8 Bit, which is uncacceptable. Here is the message I > > get during startup: > > > > Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann > > agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 438M > > agpgart: Detected an Intel(R) 855GM Chipset. > > agpgart: Detected 892K stolen memory. > > agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000 > > > > I'd appreciate any help with this! > > > > Peter > > > > (II) I810(0): detected 892 kB stolen memory. > > (II) I810(0): I830CheckAvailableMemory: 448508 kB available > > (**) I810(0): DRI is disabled because it runs only at depths 16 and 24. > > (II) I810(0): Will attempt to tell the BIOS that there is 8128 kB VideoRAM > > (WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f11 not supported. > > (II) I810(0): BIOS view of memory size can't be changed (this is not an error). > > As you can see from above there isn't much you can do. > The modes are set by the BIOS and the BIOS thinks there is > not enough memory. It cannot be convinced otherwise. > > Egbert. > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
