> 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 Thanks Norman, that article above solved the problem (downgraded the BIOS to AO2). I'm not sure how I missed that one when I was googling though..
