Paul .. you wrote ...
> ** Original Subject: [newbie] Getting more than 8bpp from Xfree86?
> ** Original Sender: Paul Derbyshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ** Original Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 14:08:06 EST
> ** Original Message follows...
>
> The system recognizes that I can do more than 8bpp. My XF86Config file
> lists 8, 16, and 32bpp entries under the "accel" device, which it is using,
> as the X server version actually in use is XF86_MACH64 or something similar
> with MACH64 in the name (I have a 4meg video card with the ATI Mach64
> chipset and it's sweet).
>
> Obviously, it is choosing the 8bpp mode. Apparently, the way to get other
> bpp is with something like
>
> startx -- -bpp 16
>
> or
>
> startx -- -bpp 32
>
> but I've grepped my root filesystem upwards, downwards, sideways, and
> inside-out and can't find where startx is being (automatically) run at
> startup. I looked in rc, rc.local, rc.sysinit, and inside the rc.5
> directory (I *think* starting the X server is runlevel 5 stuff?) in
> /etc/rc.d, then I tried grepping from "/", and nowhere does startx appear
> in anything resembling a bootup script. Nor do the afore-mentioned things
> in the rc.d directory appear to contain anything to do with starting the X
> server. As near as I can determine, the X server isn't actually being run
> at startup, and while I type at a root console I hallucinate the KDE :-)
>
> --
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>** --------- End Original Message ----------- **
>
I installed Mandrake 7 several times before I figured it out. I
too have a mach64 card (an ATI) at work, but it was not listed
so I just chose ATI MACH64, and set my vert scan rate to
the lowest it goes (50-70). I told it that my monitor was a
SVGA Non-Interlaced 1024X768(60) and 800x600(72).
The probe set my res to 1024x768 16bit automatically and
it worked fine.
Oh Paul, thanks, the sndconfig ran fine from konsole.
Alan Snider
