On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:34:55AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 04:42:30PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > I am one of the discover maintainers too, and I have no idea how to > > > detect it. As far as I know, discover (v1 and v2) are unable to > > > detect this. :) > > > > Arrgh. Too bad - I am out if good(?) ideas then :-( > > Perhaps file a bug with X.org that asks them to provide a fallback color > depth, so if 16bpp doesn't work, there could be an alternative line that > tells X to try 15bpp next. THEN die if it can't do that, either. :^)
this sounds like a good long-term solution. as a short-term workaround, maybe xdebconfigurator (or discover) could maintain a list of cards that don't support 16 bit color depth, but support 15 or 24. i don't suspect it to be a long list, and it will hopefully eventually be obsoleted. you could check against the pci id, or the string for the card identifier(the 4th column for discover1-data), though i suspect the pci id would be better. live well, vagrant
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