Alan Macdougall wrote: > > On 8/6/01 at 1:40 AM, Michel DSnzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Duncan Sands wrote: > > > > If I use more bpp then the screen image is > > > displaced to the right, and wraps around onto > > > the left of the screen. Having the left of a > > > window on the right of the screen and the > > > right of the window on the left of the screen > > > makes my head hurt... However, having only > > > 8bpp is a pain too. Can anyone suggest how I > > > can have more colours and less head pain? > > > > Help fix the bug. ;^) > > I had similar problems on my 7600 w/. 15" Apple Multisync AV monitor > having gotten XFree86 4.03 / fbdev to work - the wrap (only about 1.5 cm > though) at what I thought was 8 bpp, and a really terrible pinkish hued > display at what I thought was 16 bpp. > > This with kernel args in BootX of "video=controlfb:vmode:16,cmode:16". > > Turns out (after reading some of the debian-x list) that changing the > "Default Depth" in the "Screen" section of the XF86Config-4 file from 16 > to 15 fixes *both* the wrap problem and the colour problem. (So I've > now learned that bpp , depth.)
A lot of framebuffer devices are broken such that they only work correctly in either depth 15 or 16, not both. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
