Re: Stolen Memory <- i830M video chip

[Abraham vd Merwe <abraham@2d3d.co.za>]

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Hi Michael!

It's a problem with your BIOS. There is no way to set the video modes unless
you use local memory or 8mb stolen since the setmode BIOS calls checks
whether the mode can fit in the stolen memory, whether you populated the GTT
with extra pages or not.

It is therefore a OEM BIOS problem. Dell was notified about this a long time
ago - I thought they fixed it in the mean time. Try moaning about this to
Asus as well...

> working here on an Asus L1-laptop which contains the Intel 830M graphical
> chip. when loading the agpgart module, it prints in syslog that there is
> only 1 Meg 'stolen ram'. like that, it's not possable to run X @ 1024x768
> with more then 256 colors.
> 
> i searched on the intel-website, which told me hat i should be able to
> change this setting in my bios. *not*
> 
> can't i reserve any more ram myselve by selecting linux only to use 256 -
> 8 Meg or something @ boot-time ?

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Regards
 Abraham

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