Re: Video display question.
Hey,
I got really tired of the ATI Rage .. had it on this box with the 2.1 release
running 2.2.14 and the bugs in the xserver just wouldn't let the poor rage do
it's thing. I seen posts a while back about getting the latest greatest x and
that was making things better. I just decided to get a new card - voodoo 3.
Good luck, I really hope you can get your card working to it's potential.
Regards
On Thu, 18 May 2000, brian moore wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 04:36:42PM +0000, Brent McMillan wrote:
> > I've been playing around with my xf86config and my window manager
> > (afterstep) for a while trying to get images to appear as nice as when I
> > view them in Windows. I have a ATI Rage IIc AGP with 8 Mb of RAM and I
> > run X windows at 24 bpp and a resolution of 1024x768. My problem is
> > that Netscape has trouble "allocating a colour map entry for the
> > background" and jpegs and such all appear grainy no matter what program
> > I use to view them with. I've limited my wharf to 5 colour unintensive
> > icons, since any more would not appear when the wharf was started.
> > Also, I just have a plain blue background for my root window.
>
> You sure you're running at 24bpp?
>
> > Can anyone tell me what needs to be done so that I can get more colours
> > on my screen? Thanks in advance
>
> Yes, run at 16, 24 or 32bpp.
>
> The error message you're seeing is indicative of 8bpp modes.
>
> (BTW, last I knew Netscape looked like crap at 24bpp, failing to color
> its icons. That's a bug in Netscape. It works at 16 or 32bpp.)
>
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