[K12OSN] Specify the correct sound module, onboard video settings, a new school year, and an update on RMSEL

[Sudev Barar]

On 17/08/06, Rita Gibson <rgibson57 at earthlink.net> wrote:
[SNIP]

Way to go. I am impressed with (mis)utilisation of last years left
over budget ;-)


> My next challenge with the GX60 was the video -- the screen on two of
> them displayed normally, and on two the login screen was huge and when I
> logged into the desktop everything was huge. I tried setting the desktop
> manually to 1024x768 but that didn't work. I went into the bios settings
> and discovered that when I increased the ram from 1 MB to 8 MB (the
> maximum) in the onboard devices > video settings the desktop looked
> great. I also turned some video setting to ENABLED that had been
> DISABLED ( I can't remember what it was, but it made sense to at least
> try it, and it improved the appearance of the video so I went with it).

Chances are that the vedio is also i810. In my experience setting
XSERVER=vesa works most of time with i810 chipset. Some one else had
pointed out setting specific ram settings in lts.conf works. Look up
the list.

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Regards,
Sudev Barar