Geek of Tech's Journal: Oh I love BIOS Upgrades!

BIOS upgrades are so fun! I was having a problem with Windows on my laptop. The tech support guy (via phone) suggested updating the BIOS. Okay. Whatever. I'm sure he knows what he's talking about. Well, after we got off the phone, I finally got it working. Yeah!

Unfortunately, when I booted in Linux a little later, I had an ever so small problem. X kinda sucked. I could have 1024x768x8bpp or 640x480x16bpp. Okay... After a little bit of looking I found the problem.

My video card (Intel 82845G) uses shared memomry. 8 megs of shared memory. For some reason, Dell had hardcoded into the BIOS that the computer only had 1 meg of video memory. Thus far I haven't been able to remedy this. It really sucks. Until I find a solution I'm going to be in Windows or the SuSE Console. :(