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What can I do to get my display to use 24 bit (or 32 or 16 or 15) rather
than 8 bit colour? (pismo still)
I tried adding
append="video=atyfb:mode:1024x768,cmode:24"
to my yaboot.conf and rerunning ybin
now dmesg says
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda10 ro video=atyfb:mode:1024x768,cmode:24
the atyfb section still says
PCI: Enabling device 00:10.0 (0086 -> 0087)
aty128fb: Rage Mobility M3 (AGP) [chip rev 0x0] 8M 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1)
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
Registered "ati" backlight controller, level: 5/15
fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer device on PCI
no framebuffer address found for
/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY,RageM3pB
which is exactly what it said before
and when I try to run the fbdev X server in 24 bit colour it has the error
(**) FBDev: Using default frame buffer video mode
(--) FBDev: Frame buffer device: ATY Rage128
(--) FBDev: Video memory: 8192K @ 0xa4000000
(--) FBDev: MMIO regs: 7K @ 0xa0000000
(--) FBDev: Type 0 type_aux 0 bits_per_pixel 24
(--) FBDev: Unknown hardware accelerator type 32
(--) FBDev: No driver support for hardware acceleration
bpp = 24, depth = 24, BitsPerRGB = 8
Fatal server error:
Can't handle packed pixels with 24 bits per pixel
I have downloaded X 4.02 and the rsync xfree86 thing from penguinppc.org,
however in 8 bit mode at least this seems fast enough for now and all, will
maybe try the 4.* X stuff sometime later (after all compiling it and
installing it with no debs is a pain)
See You
Steve
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