stuck w/ a 640 x 480 resolution - Dell 828656 Graphics controller

Mitch Anderson mitch at metauser.net
Thu Jul 15 12:47:49 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 05:48, Jim Cornette wrote:

> 1) Is there a way to get the resolution corrected to do better than 640 
> x 480, with this type of video card, using Fedora?

Yes, it has been a known problem with some Dell models.  Seems its a
BIOS problem.  Setting the Video RAM buffer to 8M instead of the default
1M usually fixes it.  However they "attempted" to fix the bios in an A03
release which made the bios fix no longer work.  You just have to force
32MB - 48MB for its video ram in X.org's config.

These two options have solved the problem for me, however here is some
more info about it:

http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html

> 
> 2) Is the i810 driver correct for this card to use?

Yes it is
> 

Mitch





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