Intel i865 video adapter

Chris Purcell redhat at cjp.us
Mon Feb 2 14:43:50 UTC 2004


> I'm running Fedora on a Dell Optiplex SX270.  I'm having a problem with
> the video adapter (Intel 865) where I can't get it to use any resolution
> higher than 640x480.  I know that there are known issue's with the Intel
> i845 and i865 chipsets, but I was able to get around this problem on the
> Optiplex SX260 using the i845 chipset.  In the BIOS, I set the video
> buffer RAM to 8MB (from 1MB) and it fixed the issue.  The SX270 uses the
> Intel 865 video card, and the BIOS fix doesn't seem to do anything with
> this card. Is there anything else that I can try to get Linux going on the
> SX270?

>>Probably a buggy Dell BIOS. Downgrading the BIOS to A02 solved this
>>problem for me.
>>
>>There is some discussion about this here:
>>
>>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/118623


Thanks Norman, that article above solved the problem (downgraded the BIOS
to AO2).  I'm not sure how I missed that one when I was googling though..


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