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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> I think I need a 'real' X server.

Steven posted the XF86Config for 800x600 resolution and the SVGA X 
server.  I posted something similar that goes to 1024x768.


> Which, fortunately, will be half the size of the one on my
> debian OS.

> lspci -v on my debian OS reports this:
You can look in /proc under pci if you do not have lspci.

> 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82810E CGC [Chipset Grap
> hics Con
> troller] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>        Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 0012
>        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
>        Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>        Memory at ffe80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
>        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
>
>
> It's called an "i810" chipset.

We have those on three boards now - HP, IBM and a mini-DELL (the larger 
DELLS have real AGP video cards).  We immediately put in real video cards 
(ATI PCI). In DOS or linux they use 1MB of onboard video RAM (or 512K) and 
when you disable them onboard they still use the megabyte and keep linux 
from booting with kernel 2.2 unless you add mem=(X-1)M to the loadlin or 
lilo line, where X is onboard RAM.  So you will need to view at 640x480 to 
get 24-bit truecolor.  Windows apparently has some way to use more RAM 
with this chip.

 > I guess I should try the xsvga.tgz server, right?

Right.  I have not tried that with this chip.  You can check online if it 
is supported.

> Lee

Sindi