I am running the SVGA server, and am unable to start X Windows in 16 bit mode. I tried this command:
startx -- -bpp 16 and got this message: SVGA: Linear addressing is required for 16bpp *** A configured device found, but display modes could not be resolved.*** There is a message in XF86Config that says: # To allow linear addressing, uncomment the Option line and the # address that the card maps the framebuffer to. so I edited my XF86Config file and uncommented Option "linear" There are two entries right above Option "linear" with addresses: #MemBase 0x00e00000 #MemBase 0x04e00000 I didn't know which one to try, so I tried one, then the other. If neither of those is my MemBase address, I don't know how to find it. Anyway, I always get the same result. When I try startx -- -bpp 16, my screen comes up totally black and when I click the mouse to drop the xterm window (I am running TWM) the mouse locks up. After 30 seconds or so I can move the mouse around the screen, so long as I don't move it over the xterm window, in which case it will lock up again. The xterm window does appear to be in higher resolution. If I click the mouse button away from the xterm screen, the green rectangular menu appears, but I can't read the menu items in it. However If I move to the bottom of the rectangle (where the exit commands is), I can exit X Windows normally, even though I can't read the menu. When X shuts down, I see this message: Cirrus: BitBLT engine time-out. Cirrus: BitBLT engine time-out. Cirrus: BitBLT engine time-out. Cirrus: BitBLT engine time-out. Cirrus: BitBLT engine time-out. Cirrus: BitBLT engine time-out. waiting for X server to shut down So I tried Option "no_bitblt" as well as Option "noaccel". Under these conditions, X starts with a black screen and some colored bars near the top of the screen, and no xterm window is visible at all. I know it's there because if I position the mouse in the center of the screen I can type commands and they will execute. For example I can play a sound file, even though I can't see what I'm typing. I can also exit as before, but now I can't see the rectangular menu. If I click the screen and guess how far to move the mouse, I can get the exit command to work (it usually takes several tries). Here is as much of the screen output as I could get with SHIFT+PAGE UP when X shuts down under there conditions. (--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 96.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" (--) SVGA: chipset: clgd5429 (--) SVGA: videoram: 1024k (--) SVGA: clocks: 25.23 28.32 41.16 36.08 31.50 39.99 45.08 49.87 (**) SVGA: Option "linear" (**) SVGA: Option "no_bitblt" (**) SVGA: Using 16 bpp, Depth 16, Color weight: 565 (--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 52.065 MHz (**) SVGA: Mode "640x480": mode clock = 31.500, clock used = 31.499 (**) SVGA: Mode "800x600": mode clock = 40.000, clock used = 39.991 (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 800x600 (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024 (--) SVGA: clgd5429: Internal memory clock register is 0x20 (Standard RAS) (**) SVGA: clgd5429: Approximate DRAM bandwidth for drawing: 51 of 114 MB/s (--) SVGA: clgd5429: Using linear framebuffer at 0x03e00000 (62MB) (--) SVGA: clgd5429: 88576 bytes off-screen memory available (--) SVGA: clgd5429: Using hardware cursor (--) SVGA: clgd5429: Using accelerator functions (--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture) (--) SVGA: XAA: No acceleration primitives defined. waiting for X server to shut down If anyone can give me a clue about this, I would be greatly appreciative. Thanks, David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
