On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 02:46:37PM +1100, Steven Hanley wrote: > All > > What can I do to get my display to use 24 bit (or 32 or 16 or 15) rather > than 8 bit colour? (pismo still) the console does not support more then 8 bit color. (rather it has no more colors then that.) > I tried adding > > append="video=atyfb:mode:1024x768,cmode:24" i don't think mode is valid, but im not sure on that. > which is exactly what it said before > > and when I try to run the fbdev X server in 24 bit colour it has the error > > (**) FBDev: Using default frame buffer video mode > (--) FBDev: Frame buffer device: ATY Rage128 > (--) FBDev: Video memory: 8192K @ 0xa4000000 > (--) FBDev: MMIO regs: 7K @ 0xa0000000 > (--) FBDev: Type 0 type_aux 0 bits_per_pixel 24 > (--) FBDev: Unknown hardware accelerator type 32 > (--) FBDev: No driver support for hardware acceleration > bpp = 24, depth = 24, BitsPerRGB = 8 > > Fatal server error: > Can't handle packed pixels with 24 bits per pixel well with XFree 3.3.6 i just set the DefaultColorDepth to 32 in /etc/X11/XF86Config (this would be 24 on X4 as the 32 hack is gone) have you tried setting the colordepth there? on my system i get 32 bit color in X while my console is in 8 bit color. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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