Re: grub works now but xorg struggles a bit on old box....
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:29:32 +0000
"Michael Fothergill" <mikef20000@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Things looked good until I got to xorg. It wouldn't fire up because
> the old ATI Mach 64 graphics card driver can't support 24 depth......
>
> The actual error was ATI(0) driver can't support 24 depth....
>
> What does this mean?
>
> Can I find a way around this?
>
> It was nice to see a bang up to date kernel on an ancient box.
>
> Your comments are appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Fothergill
Run 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' and choose default depth 16. If you
don't get the question maybe you need to add the option -plow.
Regards,
Andrei
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