I cannot get the Xconfigurator to recognize that my Intel 810 has 4M of RAM and it will only accept 1M to configure the driver. THis makes GNOME and other GUI item to either run extremely slow or not at all. I currently have X configured for 8 bits at the lowest screen resolution. My CPU is a 500Mhz Intel Celeron and I have allocated 32M of swap space. I have also tried to go into the config file and hard-code 4096 for RAM, but the X server crashes. By the way, the entry for video RAM is commented out when Xconfigurator sets up the i810 for 1M RAM.
Are you positive you have 4Mb of RAM on your video hardware? Most if not all onboard video hardware shares your system's main RAM memory with the video hardware, and I know some onboard video hardware allows you to configure the amount of RAM assigned to the video adaptor by changing a setting in your system's CMOS setup program. Try checking your CMOS settings for a videoram setting.
Created attachment 13390 [details] Intel i810 video hardware has 1Mb of physical RAM
Yes, that is correct. The following information may also be useful to you as well for your i810 board. http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/i810.html