Re: Help allocating RAM to video card

2004-12-27 Thread Kent West
Ridge Chittenden wrote: >I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI chip with a measly 2MB of video RAM. Before getting a new mobo, you might see if a BIOS upgrade is available that lets you increase the video RAM. Also, there's some sort of video setting for some chipsets, like "IgnoreB

Re: Help allocating RAM to video card

2004-12-27 Thread Ridge Chittenden
--- Sam Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:03:31AM -0800, Ridge > Chittenden wrote: > > I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI > chip > > with a measly 2MB of video RAM. This is enough for > me > > to run X with a resolution of 800x600, but no > more. > > I

Re: Help allocating RAM to video card

2004-12-26 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:03:31AM -0800, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI chip > with a measly 2MB of video RAM. This is enough for me > to run X with a resolution of 800x600, but no more. If you set the color depth to 16 bits instead of 24 bits, you shou

Re: Help allocating RAM to video card

2004-12-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 09:26 -0800, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > --- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 08:03 -0800, Ridge Chittenden > > wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI > > chip > > > with a measly 2MB of video RAM.

Re: Help allocating RAM to video card

2004-12-26 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:26:36AM -0800, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > > Yuck! OK, thanks Ron. Unfortunately, this machine > (circa 1998) has only 1 PCI slot, which is occupied by > my wireless card. (The video is onboard.) Forgive my > ignorance, but would an ISA video card work? Yes, but I doubt w

Re: Help allocating RAM to video card

2004-12-26 Thread Ridge Chittenden
--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 08:03 -0800, Ridge Chittenden > wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI > chip > > with a measly 2MB of video RAM. This is enough for > me > > to run X with a resolution of 800x600, but no >

Re: Help allocating RAM to video card

2004-12-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 08:03 -0800, Ridge Chittenden wrote: > Hello all, > > I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI chip > with a measly 2MB of video RAM. This is enough for me > to run X with a resolution of 800x600, but no more. > I'd like to try to push it to a higher resolution, but >

Help allocating RAM to video card

2004-12-26 Thread Ridge Chittenden
Hello all, I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI chip with a measly 2MB of video RAM. This is enough for me to run X with a resolution of 800x600, but no more. I'd like to try to push it to a higher resolution, but the Xserver complains that it doesn't have enough memory and drops down