Re: Video and Power Macintosh 8600/300


Subject: Re: Video and Power Macintosh 8600/300
From: Charles Eggers (ceggers@solitonresearch.com)
Date: Mon May 21 2001 - 07:06:10 MDT


After much similar futzing with my 7600, someone on the list
suggested setting 15-bit color in the xf86 config file. Sure enough,
it worked.
Good luck -
Chuck

>I just got an old Power Mac 8600/300 that I'm trying to set up with
>Yellow Dog 1.2. Once 2.0 comes out, this issue may go away, but
>until then, I'd like to figure this out. I'm trying to get a video
>mode besides 8 bit color. The best I've been able to do so far is
>1024x768, 8-bit color. I should be able to go 24-bit color, albeit
>at poor resolutions. Ideally, I'd like to set my Mac to 16 bit,
>1024-768. How do I do this? I've tried a number of things, from
>just letting Xconfigurator do it by itself, to manually editing
>XF86Config and setting the proper video mode. At this point, the
>problem does not seem to be my monitor, but the video card itself.
>Although it scans it as "control", 2 MB video ram, unaccelerated, it
>set's the mode in XF86Config as "generic", 256 k. I've tried
>manually editing this with no luck. I've also tried putting in
>kernel video arguments to set it to the mode I would like, all to no
>avail. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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