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Old 05-04-2004, 12:55 PM   #1
gregorya
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Video Memory in BIOS


Hi all,

After a few weeks of messing about, I've come to the conclusion that the reason my intel 82845 won't support Opengl in Linux is because my Video Memory is set by default to 1meg (or less) in the BIOS.

However, theres no option to change it in the BIOS, and my manufacturer do not offer an update for the BIOS.

Can I edit the BIOS manually (or do some other fix) to get around this problem?

If so, bearing in mind I'm a newbie, please try to explain in fairly basic terms.

Alex
 
Old 05-04-2004, 04:15 PM   #2
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Incidentally, I'm running Mandrake 10.0 and using KDE, and the BIOS is Phoenix BIOS 6.00

Alex

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