Hi Look at fb and vesa.
Robyn On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 09:49, Colin Andrews wrote: > > I recently installed xfree86 4.2 on an OLD compaq laptop (because I have nothing >better to do with my spare time apparently). > > The system is a Compaq Elite LTE 4/75cx (if anybody cares) which uses the WD90c24 >chipset. > > I had previously had xfree86 3.3.6 working OK on this system using the SVGA server - >640 x 480 x 8 bpp > > I've been using the vga driver for version 4.2. For a long time, I could only get it >to display at 320x240 until I figured out that I had to set it > to 4bpp to get 640 by 480. > > Is there any way for me to get 640 x 480 x 8 bpp on this machine? or do have to wait >until someone makes a driver for it? (which will > probably never happen). > > I've just been reading about fbdev. Will this help me? > > Thanks for your time... > Colin > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie > _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
