How to increase color depth on an Intel 845GL-based system

[Adam L. Klein]

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J. Erik Hemdal wrote:

|Message: 26
|Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:48:55 +0530 (IST)
|From: Atul Chitnis <achitnis at exocore.com>
|To: fedora-list at redhat.com
|Subject: Re: How to increase color depth on an Intel 845GL-based system
|Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com
|
|On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Erik Hemdal wrote:
|
|>My laptop uses the Intel 845GL chipset, and I'm unable to get it to run
|>X in anything other than 256-color mode.
|
|
|The desktop I use in office is an 845GL based machine, and I have no
|problems getting into 24-bit mode - all I needed to do was set teh BIOS
|option to increase shared memory from 1 MB to 8 MB.
|
|The issue is more likely your notebook itself, or rather its BIOS. If you
|could let us know what notebook (make/model) it is, someone could
possibly
|help you further.
|
|Atul
|
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|I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 running Dell's BIOS version A23.  If it
matters
|it's a USA machine (in case they alter the innards by market).  I
know that
|BIOS A26 is available, but I haven't upgraded.  Dell's web site
doesn't say
|anything about video fixes in A26.
|
|If anyone has an idea that might help, I'd be grateful.  I want to do
|presentations on this machine, and 256 colors look really ugly.
|
|Thanks  Erik
|
Erik:

I've worked on a number of Dell laptops and desktops with the shared
video memory issue, especially with RedHat (8, 9 and AS 2.1).  The
solution is definitely a BIOS update.  Once installed, bump up the
shared memory as high as you can (at least 8MB - that's what it was on
the OptiPlex machines) and X should be fine.

Adam Klein

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Adam L. Klein
<alklein at integraonline dot com>

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