Subject: Re: Monitor Resolution and Driver
From: Neil Jolly (njolly@home.com)
Date: Tue Dec 14 1999 - 19:39:38 MST
Phil Kirschner wrote:
> I now have X working with 832x624 resolution, and 8 bit depth. Now
> that the machine knows I have some VRAM, the scrolling/refreshing is
> MUCH better, but I used to get 32 bit color, and now I have 8. I
> tried putting 16 in the Depth part of XF86Config, and it worked, but
> gave this error in the output:
>
> mach64CreateGC: unsupported depth: 16. Using cfbCreateCG indstead.
16 bit is unsupported, and 32 bit is broken. Use 15 or 24 bit depths. Also what
version of XFree86 are you using?
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Oh, and the sqealing is more like once little squeal when going into
> X, and then normal operation. It doesn't sound like it is straining
> to maintain the resolution, only that it is working to start it.
>
>
If you can get normal operation without the squeal, then by all means use it in
that depth.
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