On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 10:49, Paul Talacko wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:24:00PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 11:33, Paul Talacko wrote: > > > Since updating from woody to sarge X behaves funnily. The highest > > > resoluton I can now get is 640x480. In fact it's the only resolution I > > > can get. > > > > What happens if you try to use other resolutions? Please provide at > > least relevant snippets of the server log and config files. > > Sorry it's taken so long to get back to the list about this, I've been > really busy over the last few days. It appears that it > isn't 640x840 I can only get but 800x600. When I was running Woody I > would get 1024x768 which was about right for the screen size. > > I have bpp set to 15. If I try 16 the colours on the screen get > mangled. If I try 24, X crashes. If I try 8, I get a green screen > display on the left half of the monitor. > > A couple of further points. X seems to believe I have only 1M video > RAM, I've got 2M. Also, the 999 errors appear at different places in the > log file each time X is started.
[...] > (II) FBDEV(0): Hardware: OFfb ATY,264GT- (vidmem: 1014k) You're running OFfb in console, which probably causes all the problems. Things might work better with atyfb. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
