Re: startx problems on Umax S900
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:36:32PM -0700, dylan wrote:
> on 04.5.21 8:10 PM, Paul Mullen at pem@nellump.net was reported to have
> writen:
>
> > FWIW, I gave up on trying to get X to play nice with the Twin Turbo
> > card. My S900 has the 8 MB version, and I could never get the display to
> > start up without looking screwball. The best I could do was a useable
> > desktop, but a completely messed up color map. It wasn't really an issue
> > since the box runs headless. I have a VNC server running on it for the
> > rare occasion I need to see the desktop.
> >
> did you try setting the bit depth to 15?
IIRC, I tried every bit depth available. None of them worked. I gave up
after an hour or so. One of these days should I decide I actually need a
monitor, I may shop for a better-supported video card.
Paul
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