Re: sparcstation 10 w/ X
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Jim Kovalchuk wrote:
> the only thing that dmesg displays is :
> fb0: cgsix at e.20000000 TEC Rev 2 CPU 68020 Rev 7 [GX]
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> what kinda frame buffer is this ?
Its an 8 bit frame buffer with hardware accel, use xserver-xsun and she'll
run fine.
Regards,
Peter Firmstone.
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> On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Q89029292 wrote:
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> > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Jim Kovalchuk wrote:
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> > > Hi, just installed potato on my sparcstation 10. Seems i cant run X in
> > > 16bpp mode. Is this a hw limitation ? Does my video buffer not have enough
> > > memory to run in 16bpp mode ? How do i find out what video buffer i have ?
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> > from the command line enter the command $ dmesg
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> > the look for the line that begins with fb0:
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> > Your card will either be 8 bit or 24 bit color.
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> > Regards,
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> > Peter Firmstone.
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