Re: I845 video chipset
Le ven 24/10/2003 à 16:35, Mike A. Harris a écrit :
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Desquerre Yohann wrote:
>> >Speaking about the video driver, is there any one which manage to make
>> >work an i845GL chipset up to 1020*868... I would very happy to kown that
> >> 1020x868? What an oddball resolution. ;o)
>
>Oupssss....Sorry i could say 1024*768
>
> >> Seriously though, the horiz width and line pitch has
to be a
>> multiple of 8 pixels.
> >> [mharris@devel X86]$ gtf 1020 868 75
> >> # 1024x868 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 67.95 kHz;
pclk: 93.50 MHz
>> Modeline "1024x868_75.00" 93.50 1024 1088 1200 1376 868 869 872
906 -HSync +Vsync
> >> There's 1024x868@75Hz, about as close as you can
get to 1020
>> horiz.
>
>My problem to use 1152*864, my /etc/X11/XFree86config file seems to be
>correct but Xfree always chose 1024*768...
>
>Snif... I 'm so sad..
>
>however thanks for your additional information.
>
>A part of me XF86config file :
>
>"Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "i810"
> VendorName "Videocard vendor"
> BoardName "Intel 845"
>EndSection
>
>Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Videocard0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1152x864" "1024x768"
"800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
>EndSection
Check your X server log file, and it will tell you why it
I don't find an error messages neither a warming !!!
rejected 1152x864. A popular reason for Intel video hardware, is
because your BIOS CMOS settings limit the video memory to a small
amount like 1Mb or 2Mb. Increase the video memory amount in the
If you are talking to me about the "on chip frame buffer size", it's
limited to 8MB ???
BIOS to 16Mb or more. Alternatively try using VideoRAM 16384 in
the config file Device section.
I tried that no success (moreover my chipset have got 64Mo(i tried it
with Win... Xp : Shame on me)).
regards