i recently bought a Toshiba R100 laptop with a Trident XP4 graphics card and installed freebsd and XFree86 (as i've understood the XOrg is a pretty recent forkso i guess that you might stilll have this bug)
the bug exists in XFree4.4.0 and seems pretty silly but easy to fix. it manifests itselfas garbled colors when using 16/32bpp colormodes on my graphics card (if you search for "toshiba r100 linux" a page on freed.net will popup with the exactlysame problem). considering the nature of this bug it could possibly affect other chipsets aswell. now to the problem and fix. inside programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/vesa/vesa.c there is a line that says: if (pScrn->bitsPerPixel >= 8 && pVesa->vbeInfo->Capabilities[0] & 0x01) VBESetGetDACPaletteFormat(pVesa->pVbe, 8); (changing to pScrn->bitsPerPixel == 8 fixes the problem on this chip, but maybe acheck for the memory model would be more proper?) i looked at the vesa documentation(it was ages ago i read it last time, sometimeduring the 90s when i was making stuff for dos :), and it says that after a modereset the DAC will be reset to the vga 6bit format, so the above code kinda makessense(atleast for 8bpp modes). i hope you guys make a wise decision on how to resolve this. good luck. / Jonas Lund _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel