On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:50:11PM -0500, Chris Purcell wrote: > I'm running Fedora on a Dell Optiplex SX270. I'm having a problem with > the video adapter (Intel 865) where I can't get it to use any resolution > higher than 640x480. I know that there are known issue's with the Intel > i845 and i865 chipsets, but I was able to get around this problem on the > Optiplex SX260 using the i845 chipset. In the BIOS, I set the video > buffer RAM to 8MB (from 1MB) and it fixed the issue. The SX270 uses the > Intel 865 video card, and the BIOS fix doesn't seem to do anything with > this card. Is there anything else that I can try to get Linux going on the > SX270? Probably a buggy Dell BIOS. Downgrading the BIOS to A02 solved this problem for me. There is some discussion about this here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/118623 -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
