Dear Michael,

I recall having that problem on a 7600 (half screen width, weird colours) using onboard video. The problem wasn't confined to GNOME, it was with anything X related. I corrected it at first by changing the colour depth to 15 instead of 16, and later by adding more video memory to allow a higher colour depth.

How much memory does the voodoo have, and how much of it is recognized by the the X server? The two are not always the same number, try #grep memory /var/log/XFree86.0.log

You can run #dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 and try a lower colour depth setting and work your way up. You should at the same time tell the X server how much video memory your card really has.

Peter Rooney
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> I just installed Debian 3.1 and ran into the following problem:
>
> When starting Gnome, the output is squeezed to half the screenwidth und colors are false (Looks like the green color component is missing)
>
> Am using a patched Voodoo3 Video Card.
>
> Any suggestions
> Anyone who has experienced this problem himself?
>
> Thanks.
>                Michael
>
> PS: The XF86 logfile shows that the Video Card is recognized as Voodoo3.
> In XF86Config fbdev is selected as driver.
>
>


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