Nick and Charles, Don't worry about it Nick. I am trying to set up pV3 which is a viz software for CFD, and its server requires 24-bit color depth. The card is decent card with 8MB ram, and at least it can do that under Windoze at 1024*768. The X server version is 4.1.0, and when I tried to set it up with Mandrake Control center (it's XFdrake acutally), I saw the limitation of the accel server, then I picked the plain X 4.1.0, and set the 24 for color depth. After it failed, I then tried to adjust /etc/XF86Config manually, no luck so far. By the way, which config file XFree86 uses? is it /etc/XF86Config or XF86Config-4? Thanks,
Jixian -----Original Message----- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] X hangs with bpp=24 On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:41:22 -0500 "Yao, Jixian (CRD)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have had a real pleasant experience with ML 8.1, but I am having a problem setup >up the X on color > depth of 24. The machine is a dell insprion 4000 (PIII, 1Ghz), video card is ATI 128 >mobility with > 8MB ram. When I enforce X to start with 24 bpp by (startx -- -depth 24), it locked >the machine > (C-A-BS etc didn't work) with a white screen (gradually). I tried various setups in /etc/XF86Config, > but didn't get it to work. Wonder if someone knows the problem and the fix. (16bpp >works fine). > If you are using 3D hardware acceleration that Is the reason. 3D accel will only run at 16bpp. If you wish to run at a higher bpp you will ned to change to X 4.10 without accel. Charles
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