Rob,
Sorry to mislead you a bit. I'm using LinuxPPC on a laptop. I use XFree86
3.3.5 with a ATI RageLT chipset. I haven't seen problems but I will look
into it further.
I do however get the black lines sometimes in 8bpp. I'm also going to look
into this.
David
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> David Thompson wrote:
> >
> > Rob,
> >
> > Make sure that you start X like this: startx -- -bpp 16 -weight 555
> >
> > This will make the 16 bit stuff work correctly (at least from my
> > experience).
> >
>
> Thanks David for your suggestion, but it doesn't help.
> My Xserver runs default "-weight 565" and I tried your 555 option.
>
> So I conclude that you're running X and Linux (RH6?) at 16 bpp with the
> correct
> colour spectrum in the Colormap.
>
> There must be something wrong with my local machine then. But I'm running the
> default RH6 though (upgraded some packages such as XFree 3.3.5).
>
> Is it my videocard: 4Mb S3-ViRGE chipset ???
>
> May be I shouldn't bother the list any longer, if no other "16bpp-linux user"
> is having these problems with the Colormap.
>
> Rob.
>
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