Nathan E Norman wrote:
Thanks to all ( I posted that at, like, 4:30 am then went to bed - just got up).On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote:I can't seem to change color depths either. No matter what I do - use -bpp <n> on the command line or change the color depth line in XF86Config-4 manually - nothing changes. And when I click on xsetroot in the window menu it changes to a kind of coarse gray (from the lime-green) and then won't do anything else.<more snips> [ snip ] It sounds like you're stuck in some very low color depth ... perhaps you could tell us what kind of hardware you have and post your XF86Config-4 ? Personally I never had any luck with GUI config of X; I use vi.
I don't have a degause button - it does it automatically and it's worked fine ever since I've owned the monitor.
I'm wondering about the color depth too so here is my config file: (XFree86 ver 4.2.1)
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 320 240 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "OEC"
ModelName "17db"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-54
VertRefresh 40-120
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "PciRetry" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SetMClk" # <freq>
#Option "MUXThreshold" # <i>
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "NoMMIO" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoPciBurst" # [<bool>]
#Option "MMIOonly" # [<bool>]
#Option "CyberShadow" # [<bool>]
#Option "CyberStretch" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvHsync" # <i>
#Option "XvVsync" # <i>
#Option "XvBskew" # <i>
#Option "XvRskew" # <i>
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "trident"
VendorName "Trident"
BoardName "3DImage975"
BusID "PCI:1:1:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
# SubSection "Display"
# Depth 1
# EndSubSection
# SubSection "Display"
# Depth 4
# EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "800x600" "640x480" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480" "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Thanks again
pn
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