Josh Bonczkowski wrote: > > I just installed Debian PPC on a 8600 the other night. I started with > the potatoe CD, and then upgraded to woody so it matches my x86 box. > Since this box is an old world mac, I'm using BootX and I have not > checked the use no video driver box. I also have not passed any > command line options. The kernel is still the stock 2.2.17* one that > was originally installed. > > Now, onto the problem. I have the frame buffer set to 1024x768 at > a depth of 16. I have X configured similarly. Whenever I launch X, > the colors are off. There is almost always one dominate color that > the display is in. Right now (after messing with fbset a bit) it's > displaying mostly in a shade of red. There is no problem with the > color on the console though. Also, the computer regularly runs in > MacOS in at least 1024x768x16 without any problems so I know it > can run there properly.
Have you tried depth 15 in X? A lot of framebuffer devices have some confusion between 15 and 16 and only correctly support one of them. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
