Sorry for the repost, I forgot to put in a subject... :( Lyall.
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Lyall Ward wrote: > Hi, > > I have dell inspiron 3700 with an ATI Rage Mobility AGP 2x vid > card(detects as being a Mach 64 LM). Running debian 2.2(potato) and XF86 > 4.0.2. > > I have successfully installed and configured X to run at 1024x768 8bit > color using the ati driver. I have, however had this system running in > 24bit color using XF86 3.3.6 and Mandrake 7.0-2 under the mach64 dirver. > > Currently if I try to run in 16 or 24 bit color. I get an error message > that no Screen for 8bit has been defined and the x server crashes. > > I have included copies of my XF86Config and the output from the server > when it starts successfully. > > Could you plese at least point me to what the limiting factor is for the > color depth? I have noted the framebuffer is also set to 8bpp. Is this the > prblem? How do I change it? > > TIA > Lyall. >
