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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: Help:  X won't run !!
Message-ID: <Cwy581.B19@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 14:21:36 GMT
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In article <36cs5v$84s@rigel.cs.pdx.edu> jdt@cs.pdx.edu (jeffrey d tesch) writes:
>VGA256: Too little memory for mode 1280x1024i

>I don't know what it means.

The error message seems reasonably clear by unix standards.  Your
video card doesn't have enough memory for the 1280 x 1024 mode.
It has only 1Mb (1024k) and needs 1280 * 1024 = 1280k:

>(--) VGA256: videoram: 1024k

Remove the line specifying 1280 x 1024 from your configuration file.

[No, I don't know why it's a fatal error, since there are plenty
of other modes listed for which there is enough memory.]

-- Richard
-- 
Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University                 R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk

Ooooh!  I didn't know we had a king.  I thought we were an
autonomous collective.