Re: Configuring X on Potato r3 for an on-board Mercury(810) Display
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:00:55AM +0530, shyamk wrote:
> I am having problem in
> configuring X on Potato r3 for an on-board Mercury(810) Display.
> I get only 8bpp while Win98 is crystal clear.I am sulking because
> I want to shift completely to Debian , even the pictures.
> As you can guess , the list of drivers does not show anything
> proximate to Mercury or i810.
> An autoprobe (I guess something like this takes place) ...
> takes the chipset as Mercury ... but , things stay there.
> I still get only 8 bpp even though I asked for 32 bpp and 800x680
>
> As a result the pictures I view in qvwm have grains.
>
> Could somebody please guide me .
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Shyam
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Can you get 16 bpp or 24 bpp? If you set "DefaultColorDepth 24" in
XF86Config, what you get error messages in /var/log/XFree86.0.log?
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