Derek Neighbors wrote:

>What is your refresh rate currently set at?  It looks like this chipset
>might be tempermental with anything over 85Hz.  If you can post your
>configuration file and the output from the X log file that would help.
>
If more memory doesn't solve it, I will use that as a windows box and 
use the IBM laptop as a GNU/Linux box which I bet will work perfect. I 
saw some stuff on the net that when Dell went to a newer BIOS, that 
started the problem. Some people loaded an older BIOS to get things to 
work. Dell is very much a WinTel shop so it does't surprise me. Besides, 
since windows is much more stingy with resources, it would be prudent to 
use the more powerful box for windows. I'll check hardware compat first 
this time. We are getting better when the expectation is that it will 
just work.

BTW, the hsync is 31-80 and refresh is 56-76 as per the Dell spec in the 
config file.

I'll post again if I solve it. Thanks for the help.

Eric

>
>-Derek
>
>Eric Richardson wrote:
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>>Derek Neighbors wrote:
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>>>Can you run lspci -v so that we can know exactly what you have?
>>>      
>>>
>>I wasn't able to get the whole output yet (no drives, no mail yet) but
>>lspci -v did report the following which looked out of the ordinary.
>>Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 0151
>>
>>dmesg reported:
>>Intel 810 + AC97 Audio v1.01
>>i830.o and agpgart.o loaded
>>...
>>agpgart: max main memory for agp 202M
>>agpgart: Detected an Intel(R) 856G Chipset
>>agpgart: Detected 892k stolen memory
>>agpgart: AGP aperature is 128M
>>[drm] AGP 0.99 Aperature @ 0xf0000000 12MB
>>[drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 0
>>
>>I have a feeling that 256MB ram is not enough for this setup.
>>
>>I also found on the web a note to answer no to framebuffer on setup.
>>
>>I did rerun the setup: dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86 but did
>>not see the fb option.
>>Is it in that big long module selection list?
>>
>>Here is some select output from /var/log/XFree86.0.log that I though
>>might help.
>>
>>(- - ) framebuffer bpp32
>>(II) BIOS 12288KB Video Ram
>>(WW) Extended BIOS function 0xff11 not supported
>>...
>>(==) Video Ram 32768 kbyte
>>(- -) Preallocate 892 kbyte
>>(==) Dell (65536)
>>(- -) Max framebuffer space 32616 kbyte
>>(II) I810(0) DFP(digital  flatpanel)
>>(II) No display size info for pipe A
>>
>>I got it running still at 640x480 and hopefully they will get me some
>>more RAM in case that is the problem.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Eric
>>
>>    
>>
>>>-Derek
>>>
>>>Eric Richardson wrote:
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>>> 
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>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I trying to get Xwindows on Debian Sarge 3.1r0a working on a Dell
>>>>desktop and LCD 19"(I think) monitor. The Graphics chip is 82865G with
>>>>shared memory, I think :-(. The display is a Dell 2001FP with AGP. I
>>>>went throught the install and selected a few different resolutions and
>>>>got the following error.
>>>>
>>>>(EE) I810(0): No video BIOS modes for chosen depth.
>>>>(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>>>>clip
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