Re: i830M video chip (X driver deficient)

From: Blue Lang (blue@b-side.org)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 12:06:18 EST


On 12 Apr 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> It isn't memory related at all. The problem is that the X driver uses
> the video BIOS to set the display modes, instead of setting the
> display mode by itself as it should. I don't know if there are enough
> docs available from intel about this but that is the problem.

erm.. I thought that's what I said. Anyways, here is that link I was
talking about:

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/c400.html

Good luck,

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