How to increase color depth on an Intel 845GL-based system
Erik Hemdal
ehemdal at townisp.com
Sun Jan 18 05:57:37 UTC 2004
My laptop uses the Intel 845GL chipset, and I'm unable to get it to run
X in anything other than 256-color mode.
Searching the archives suggests that I'm SOL because of a video BIOS
limitation (I only get 1MB of shared system RAM on my motherboard and I
can't change it).
I've tried the "VideoRAM 16384" update in XF86Conf, but it does not
work. When I try it, the logfile tells me that there's an "unsupported
function". And an old post from Mike Harris at Red Hat (on the
psyche-list) indicates that Windows systems hack around the BIOS to
avoid the limitation. You can guess, of course, that there's no trouble
when I boot to Windows XP. It will run in high-color mode...in fact, it
needs to be there.
Anyone have any newer information...and any luck...getting an Intel 845
system out of 8-bit color mode on FC1?
Thanks! Erik
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