i865 Video Memory

Eric Anholt
2003-10-11T19:45:47Z

On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 10:10, David Malone wrote:
> It seems some recent Dell machines have the amount of video memory
> available set to 1MB by default. The desktop machines allow you to
> set this in the BIOS, but the laptops don't seem to allow you to
> adjust this. Christian Zietz has a hack for Linux that convinces
> the BIOS to let you use more memory, and I've just ported his hack
> to FreeBSD.
>
> Christian's code is at:
>
> 	http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html
>
> and my patch to his code, and a binary compiled for 4.9 are at:
>
> 	http://www.cnri.dit.ie/~dwmalone/855patch/
>
> You can just run "855patch 8192" before starting X, and suddenly
> you can do a resolution higher than 640x480 in 8 bit mode ;-)

I'm pretty sure code got included in XFree86 a week or so ago to
accomplish this.  I'll be updating XFree86-4-Server-snap when I can so
people can try this out.

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Eric Anholt                                eta@lclark.edu
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