Re: Two Questions

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>]

On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Dan Bergman wrote:
> 
> > 1. How do I set up a boot so I can boot Debian or Win95? 
> >  Now I have to use a boot disk to get debian to boot...
> 
> Check out loadlin in the tools path. You will need to set up config.sys
> with a menu, so you can choose between Linux and Win95. Then set up
> autoexec.bat to run loadlin, or win95 depending on your selection from the
> menu. Check with me if you need more details.
> 
> > 
> > 2. How do I change the diplay mode in XF86 from 8bit to 16bit
> > color? I have a Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM w/ 2MB and use 
> > 16bit color in win95 so there shouldn't be any probs to get
> > it in X too..
> > 
> I hesitate to say anything here, as my knowledge may be dated or just
> plain incorrect. It is my understanding that the Diamond Stealth cards are
> not supported due to NDAs being required by Diamond. If this has changed,
> someone please correct me ;-)

Diamond did cooperate, and most of the Stealth cards are supported.  I use
Stealth 64's on all my linux PC's and they work under the accelerated S3
server.

To choose 16 bit color, you can invoke: startx -- -bpp 16.  The '--' prevents
the startx front end from evaluating the -bpp option so it gets passed to
X.

Syrus.


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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>    UCSD Physics Dept.