On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 19:55, Nick Bailey wrote: > > > Success on the 24-bit mode. I found out that on this G4, append > video=atyfb:vmode=22:cmode=24 works wonders. Then the DefaultFbBpp line > in the XF86Config-4 file is unnecessary (in fact, has to be removed).
Color depth in console and X are independent. In fact, anything besides cmode=8 is a waste of video RAM and performance for console because it only has 16 colors anyway. > The result is a very beautiful display, but it's very, very slow. I > expect you knew that. However, since most of my programming class seem > to spend their time gazing at the utter beauty of C source code, I'll go > with it for now ;) Are you using the ati driver? It should give fairly decent performance. > I still don't know where the list of vmodes is. In the end, tralling > the web at random chose 22 for me. I thought it might be in the > XFree.org site, but not where I can see it. I suppose it's > apple-hardware specific, but I can't find it in their documentation > (which is not much fun to read for a Linux geek). It certainly doesn't have anything to do with XFree86. ;) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
