Intel 810 chipset has 892_KB_ of memory?

[Iain Templeton]

G'day David,

--Original Message--:
>I'm including the relative log files, but it seems to all come down to
>something strange with VESA et. al.  I have a Dell Inspirion 1100 that
>I'm working on.  It has a 32M intel 845 (i810 XFree86 driver) in it.
>When I run X on it, X is convinced that a small region of this (892kb)
>is all there is by some BIOS (?!?) call.
>
>If you're looking at the logs below, you probably want to search for
>'Maximum space available' and start there ... and work back.
>
>892kb is only enough for 1024x768 in 8 bit colour ... which is really
>ugly (nobody programms for 8 bit colour any more).  So the unit is
>only barely usable.  Help?
>

I have an i830M chipset which does the same thing, but don't have any
troubles with it. I have a line in my XF86Config that tells it I have
more memory, and I can happily run 1024x768 in 24/32 bits (it a laptop,
so there isn't much point to run any higher).

If you look below though, X claims to have told the card it has more
memory...

[ Snip ]

>(II) I810(0): initializing int10
>(==) I810(0): Write-combining range (0xa0000,0x20000) was already clear
>(==) I810(0): Write-combining range (0xc0000,0x40000) was already clear
>(II) I810(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
>(==) I810(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear
>(II) I810(0): VESA BIOS detected
>(II) I810(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0
>(II) I810(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 832 kB
>(II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM: Intel(r)845G/845GL/845GE/845GV Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
>(II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 1.0
>(II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: Intel Corporation
>(II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: Intel(r)845G/845GL/845GE/845GV Graphics Controller
>(II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: Hardware Version 0.0
>(II) I810(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 845G
>(--) I810(0): Chipset: "845G"
>(--) I810(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xE0000000
>(--) I810(0): IO registers at addr 0xF6F80000
>(==) I810(0): Write-combining range (0xf6f80000,0x80000) was already clear
>(II) I810(0): detected 892 kB stolen memory.
>(II) I810(0): I830CheckAvailableMemory: 450560 kB available
>(II) I810(0): Will attempt to tell the BIOS that there is 12288 kB VideoRAM

Well, that is a little bit more memory here...

>(WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f11 not supported.
>(II) I810(0): Before: SWF1 is 0x00000001
>(II) I810(0): After: SWF1 is 0x00000008
>(==) I810(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear
>(II) Loading sub module "int10"
>(II) LoadModule: "int10"
>(II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.a
>(II) I810(0): initializing int10
>(==) I810(0): Write-combining range (0xa0000,0x20000) was already clear
>(II) I810(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
>(==) I810(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear
>(II) I810(0): VESA BIOS detected
>(II) I810(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0
>(II) I810(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 832 kB
>(II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM: Intel(r)845G/845GL/845GE/845GV Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
>(II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Software Rev: 1.0
>(II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Vendor: Intel Corporation
>(II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: Intel(r)845G/845GL/845GE/845GV Graphics Controller
>(II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: Hardware Version 0.0
>(II) I810(0): BIOS now sees 832 kB VideoRAM
>(--) I810(0): Pre-allocated VideoRAM: 892 kByte
>(==) I810(0): VideoRAM: 32768 kByte

Hello, this is even more video ram...

[ SNIP ]

>(--) I810(0): Maximum space available for video modes: 832 kByte

Ah, but this is less again, hmm this is strange.

Do you have a line in your XF86Config specifying the amount of Video Ram?
I have one and haven't had any trouble with it at all (other than the
acceleration being broken and causing all sorts of problems on virtual
console switching - I've been meaning to try a newer version).

Not a particularly helpful answer I suspect. Maybe try the XFree86 people,
I think it is more likely to be them than FreeBSD.

Iain