How to increase color depth on an Intel 845GL-based system

[J. Erik Hemdal]

 How to increase color depth on an Intel 845GL-based system
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Message: 26
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:48:55 +0530 (IST)
From: Atul Chitnis <achitnis at exocore.com>
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: How to increase color depth on an Intel 845GL-based system
Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Erik Hemdal wrote:

> My laptop uses the Intel 845GL chipset, and I'm unable to get it to run
> X in anything other than 256-color mode.

The desktop I use in office is an 845GL based machine, and I have no
problems getting into 24-bit mode - all I needed to do was set teh BIOS
option to increase shared memory from 1 MB to 8 MB.

The issue is more likely your notebook itself, or rather its BIOS. If you
could let us know what notebook (make/model) it is, someone could possibly
help you further.

Atul

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Hi Atul:

Thanks for the quick answer.

I suspect you are right.  I have no BIOS option to increase video memory,
and the
"unsupported option" error happens right after the system tries to expand
video RAM.

I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 running Dell's BIOS version A23.  If it matters
it's a USA machine (in case they alter the innards by market).  I know that
BIOS A26 is available, but I haven't upgraded.  Dell's web site doesn't say
anything about video fixes in A26.

If anyone has an idea that might help, I'd be grateful.  I want to do
presentations on this machine, and 256 colors look really ugly.

Thanks  Erik