Portable Bullshit

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:49:06 -0500

I got a laptop. Gateway Solo 1450. Thanks to Shelby, it was reasonably priced. However, upon booting into X, I realized that I could only get 1024x768 at 8bit color depth. This is not going to work. After finding this site, I found out it's because of a supposed BIOS "upgrade" Gateway pushed out. At that link, you will find a BIOS downgrade which will allow you to run at 1024x768@24bit. This is obviously much more desirable.

What I want to know is, how do you push out an upgrade that makes the video card use 1MB of it's 8MB of memory?