Re: XFree86 correct from source?
Chris Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Chris Rutter wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Chris Gorman wrote:
> >
> > > It did last time I tried it about a month ago.
> >
> > Yeah, but (I should have qualified myself really) did it run happily
> > and apparently correctly on (at least) Netwinders?
> >
> It ran fine for me in 8 bit color (uggh), but 16 bit failed to run though.
> I'd always get ...
>
> startx
> .......
> bpp = 15, depth = 16, BitsPerRGB = 6
>
> Fatal server error:
>
> Can't handel packed pixels with 15 bits per pixel
>
> I assumed the framebuffer driver was using 15bpp and I was asking X to
> interpret it, which it wouldn't.
It does seem to work well on a Netwinder in 16 bpp with the cyber2000
framebuffer in 2.4.0test-rmk*, if you can get it to stay up (I got memory errors
last time I tried).
-Adam P.
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