{"id":48,"date":"2004-03-22T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/2004\/03\/22\/fix-xfree86-stuck-at-640-x-480-und"},"modified":"2004-03-22T14:04:11","modified_gmt":"2004-03-22T18:04:11","slug":"fix-xfree86-stuck-at-640-x-480-under-linux-with-dell-dimension-or-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/2004\/03\/22\/fix-xfree86-stuck-at-640-x-480-under-linux-with-dell-dimension-or-o\/","title":{"rendered":"[FIX] XFree86 stuck at 640 x 480 under Linux with Dell Dimension or Optiplex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a31'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>With a fresh install of Red Hat 9 on a Dell Dimension 4600, the only video mode that would work with XFree86 was 640 x 480, which is ludicrously big on a decent-sized monitor.&nbsp; Changing the config didn&#8217;t do anything, even though the config was well within my monitor&#8217;s limits.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The solution was to go into the BIOS setup and change the Integrated Devices (LegacySelect Options) \/ Onboard Video&nbsp;Buffer setting from 1 MB to 8 MB.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not sure what the tradeoff with other aspects of the system is, but X nicely starts up at 1280 x 1024.&nbsp; Apparently, this is the solution for other Dell models as well, including the Optiplex GX260; mine had Dell BIOS Revision A08.&nbsp; Also, it seems to be the case that the problem is general to XFree86, although it manifested for me under Red Hat 9.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Thanks to Erick Tonnel at Dell, who kindly provided the solution here:<\/P><br \/>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/lists.ze-linux.org\/2004-02\/msg00154.html\">http:\/\/lists.ze-linux.org\/2004-02\/msg00154.html<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a fresh install of Red Hat 9 on a Dell Dimension 4600, the only video mode that would work with XFree86 was 640 x 480, which is ludicrously big on a decent-sized monitor.&nbsp; Changing the config didn&#8217;t do anything, even though the config was well within my monitor&#8217;s limits. The solution was to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rlucasstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}