Screen Resolution with Intel 865

[Maxplayer14]

OK, At work, I had an extra computer laying around so I installed Mandrake on it. The computer is a POS, Celeron, originally came with Win98 installed.

 

Mandrake ran like a dream.

 

Well, today we got about 40 new Dells in, so I grabbed one. I was like if Mandrake runs good on that POS I can't wait until I get it on one of these.

 

I installed, booted up, and man.....

 

Runs good, but resolution is freaked up. Now, on that old computer I ran at the 1024x768, if I try that on this one, it is so Freaking big you can't see anything. So I dropped it down to 800x600, which is crappy.

 

Does anyone have a fix for this, or suggestions? I googled around for some answers, and found some indication that there is an issue with the Intel 865 graphics controller and Mandrake 10.

 

HELP PLEASE!!!!

[Maxplayer14]

Anyone?

[DragonMage]

Hold on.. doesn't changing resolution to something lower will make things looks bigger?

[lrsach01]

I was never able to get my Intel video chipset to work with ANY flavor of linux I tried. Luckily it was a work computer and I was able to expense a new video card. :)

[Maxplayer14]

Hold on.. doesn't changing resolution to something lower will make things looks bigger?

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Yeah, it does and thats my problem. This is really frustrating because it works fine on my POS and horrible and this brand new fast Dell.

[DragonMage]

Hmm.. it's using Intel 865 graphic card right? (the new one for P4)

 

I think I heard that XFree 4.3 (the one used by Mandrake 10) doesn't support some Intel vidcard chipsets. It could be this one since it is too new for the really old XFree 4.3.

 

Do yourself a favor and try some distro with X.org installed as standard X Server (for example, Mandrake 10.1). X.org may support the vidcard since it is a lot newer and much more active in development than XFree.

 

Now, I am not really sure if the VESA driver for XFree86 4.3 can support 1024x768 resolution. Try using XFdrake to change the driver to VESA and the resolution to 1024x768. If it works.. then good for you, too bad it's slow though.

Edited October 17, 2004 by DragonMage

[Guest Cbrduck]

I had the same with the I865 card on my Dell in work. The card is just gick and uses system memory, it doesn't have any onboard, so it can't access enough memory to run at higher resolutions. I spent ages messing around with config files trying to up the res before I finally copped the problem. The result was that I had to root out some ancient card with 8megs of ram and swap it in and out whenever I was changing between Mandrake and Windows. Had to give up using Mandrake at work as a result, but hope to order a better card on expenses soon :-)

[Guest pauliephonic]

Hey all, the dell onboard video controller uses system memory when running in GUI. Unfortunately, it only reports itself as having 1Mb memory by default.

 

If you go into the BIOS and select a default of 8Mb in the viseo memory settings it will work in 1024x768 mode (no virtual desktop)

 

Regards,

 

Pauliephonic

[aRTee]

Not completely, you need the 855wrapper or the 855patch, go here:

http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html

Take your time and read it.

It's not hard to do at all.

 

I just tested today with 2 different Dell Optiplex systems, on one I had gotten Mandrakelinux 10.0 running via DrakTermServ, and it needed the patch, on the second 10.1 is now installed with the patch - the first one got a bios update and now no longer needs the patch.

 

The other one does need that patch, which we had handy (luckily), so it was less than 5 minutes to get going at 1600x1200 resolution.

 

Intel graphics are actually the last ones that have 3d accelleration with fully open source drivers. Don't bitch about them, they're showing the way. That Dell makes systems with crappy BIOSes is their problem - and the bios update has fixed it, so there.