Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 348

From: jludwig (wralphie_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/31/04

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    To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:04:39 -0400
    
    

    On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 12:05, Pietro R.A. Binetti wrote:
    > Firstly I apologize for the wrong indication: I am stuck on 640x480
    > resolution (not 800x600) and I want to have 800x600 (not 1024x768).
    > However
    > the problem doesn't change so much: I am still stuck.
    >
    > Some of you suggested me to look at the video memory in my BIOS
    > settings.
    > Now there are 2 problems:
    > 1. accessing my BIOS settings at the startup I can't see anywhere issues
    > relating on video memory
    > 2. I checked my system hardware and I discovered that my video card
    > shares
    > the memory with the RAM: it takes 8MB of 128MB. It does mean something,
    > doesn't it?
    >
    > I also checked on the Acer webpage: there are no updates available for
    > my
    > BIOS.
    snip
    1) Shared video memory may not be seen properly (or at least in the past
    was not) and you must manually set the available memory.
    2) Please bottom post so the questions/answers logically flow. This
    makes it easier to follow.

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