Quote Originally Posted by A. Jorge Garcia
OK, good! However, why would I need 8MB VRAM? The highest res and color combo i810 has is 1024x768x24 which is less than 3MB.

TIA,
Well, the last time I was near a Dell Optiplex GX270, it didn't have any choices other than "1 MB" and "8 MB" in the BIOS for the ram it uses for onboard video and choosing "1 MB" meant I couldn't get more than 640x480 at 16 bit in ANY distro of linux (yet somehow Windows got 1024x768 @ 24bit just fine without needing the change, probably something the included driver pulled off without telling the Linux developers how to do it) on the machine while choosing "8 MB" let me go as high as 1024x768 @ 24 bit without problems. So, even if it is 3 MB or less of usage for that resolution, you would have to choose the only choice higher than "1 MB" in the BIOS to use it in linux.