I have a 6400n and it is perfect.

have you updated the to the intel driver?

http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_7.04/Issues/Intel_945GM_video_issues

Nick

Well, I didn't. I followed the wiki, and it is perfect.

Try it... you can always go back.

Nick

Looks a bit too technical for me at this stage... When you say yours is perfect linicks.. is your 5 in 1 media card slot working ok.? Can you get your shared graphics to use more than 8mb in the bios.? I cannot and as it states on their website (Dells) that it is upto 256mb shared I don't think it's very good.... What is yours set at in the bios..? :)

I don't know where you get the 8MB shared bit from. The video card has 256MB, so BIOS ghared memory will never be used, I expect. In the old days when video cards had only only a little RAM (like 1MB ~ 4MB) shared system memroy was a hack to get around that. modern cards don't really need it.

My card uses full wack:

nick@palantir:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i videoram
(==) intel(0): VideoRam: 262144 KB

As to the 5in1 media card slot, I haven't ay media cards to test it with, so I don't know if it works or not. There are some issues though (typical post found on the Internet):

http://www.tabletquestions.com/mobile-pc-hardware/37792-ricoh-sd-card-reader-problem-dell-inspiron-6400-a.html

So, everything works for me except the things I haven't tried ;-)

Nick

yanski@Linux-ubuntu:~$ sudo cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i videoram (II) I810(0): Will attempt to tell the BIOS that there is 12288 kB VideoRAM (II) I810(0): BIOS now sees 12288 kB VideoRAM (--) I810(0): Pre-allocated VideoRAM: 7932 kByte (==) I810(0): VideoRAM: 65536 kByte

Hi Nick..Does not look like yours..What do you think..?? Yanski

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i videoram

Nick

Hi Linicks, Thanks for reply.. I got 8mb info from bios from the first section at the top of the screen. What do I type into the terminal to find out if mine is using the full 256mb..?? Thanks Yanski

My guess is that is due to you using the 810 driver, and not the Intel driver.

Have a read of this to install the intel driver:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=517506

Read it carefully.

Nick

Will do Nick. I will get back to you.. (probably when I break it) ;) LOL Thanks, Yanski

Hi Nick yanski@linux-ubuntu:~$ sudo cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i videoram Password:******** (==) intel(0): VideoRam: 262144 KB Does that look better now..?? ;) Thanks, Yanski

Yep, that looks good!

Is the performance better?

Nick

Yes much better now. Thanks for your help Nick. yanski... :)