Any way to increase shared memory to integrated 810 Intel graphic chip?

[Jugernot]

I've got a dell at work that uses integrated video and it doesn't have an AGP slot (don't you hate it!?)

I remember afew months ago I saw a drivers from intel that increase the shared memory to the graphics card to like 16megs or something. What was the name of it and where can I get the driver? I checked Intel, but their site is less that stellar for usability.

Any ideas?

 

[Peter]

Not really ... you can see the i810 graphics as an AGP graphics device with zero MB of local RAM. It borrows as much as it needs to, dynamically in the spirit of AGP.

What's so limited on this thing is the 2D resolution support outside Windows or Linux XFree. In DOS or in any other OS that uses VESA 2D resolutions, you are limited to modes that use 1 MByte or less.

 

[Jugernot]

Well, I'm looking to be able to get 1600x1200@32bit out of this thing... yes it won't be nice to look at, but it's what I run my 21".

The highest I can run 1600x1200 is 256 colors at the moment.

Anyway, I've switched computers and don't really care now. Thanks though.

 

[FrustratedUser]

What Peter said.

I have the same POS in my rig and I gave up and got a GF2 MX400 PCI.

 

[Peter]

Ah, now I see what you're up to. No, the RAM bandwidth of the i810 chipset doesn't allow going that high.

 

[Jaylio]

If I put a pci card in this thing will it automatically use the card and not the onboard graphics?

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: Jaylio
If I put a pci card in this thing will it automatically use the card and not the onboard graphics?

don't u have to disable the onboard graphics via the bios first?