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

> > VBE version 3.0 (Intel(R) 8xx Chipset Video BIOS)
> > DAC is fixed, controller is VGA compatible, RAMDAC causes snow
> > Total memory: 512 kilobytes


> It looks like Xvesa is completely unaware of agpgart
> (which I suppose is not that surprising).  Therefore,
> if you are going to use Xvesa for X, you will be
> limited to the modes it can produce.  It appears
> that 640x400x16 is the best it will do for you
> unless Sindi can find a way for you to up the video
> RAM to 1mb.

512K RAM should have produced more colors at 640x480.
But for 1MB:

HP Pavilion 800Mhz i810 video and sound

Go into CMOS setup (F1 F2 F10 or DEL? - my partner hit them all)

Phoenix BIOS

Advanced
Video boot type - Onboard video 512K or 1MB

        To the right it says 'select disable onboard video' but
        that is not provided as an option.  If you plug in a PCI video
        card it disabled onboard video for you but keeps using 1MB
        video RAM.  Kernel 2.4.31 can handle this but for 2.2
        loadlin with mem=63MB if you have 64MB onboard.


Maybe this will at least get you 640x480x24 and 800x600x16 bit color.

Our Compaq laptop would not produce more than 4 colors (not even 4-bit 
color) with Xvesa.  You may need to change libX11 and use the svga server.

Or find a half-height video card.

Sindi