Hi! I've had Debian woody (3.0r1) installed on my Power Macintosh 7200/75 for a while. Over time, and after reading different suggestions posted online, I've tried different things to make X under Debian use a higher resolution and color depth than the common (low) denominator of 640x480 @ 256 colors.
I've provided kernel arguments in BootX (platinumfb:vmode:13,cmode:16), and also played with XF86Config-4. I can make debian use a color depth of 16 at 640x480, and I can also make debian use a resolution of 832x624, but at a color depth of 8. The Mac OS, OTOH can do 832x624 @ thousands of colors (16). Recently I discovered fbset. I installed it and this is what it reported for my system when run with no arguments: mode "832x624-75" # D: 57.597 MHz, H: 49.997 kHz, V: 74.959 Hz geometry 832 624 832 624 8 timings 17362 208 48 39 1 64 3 rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0 endmode After reading the man page I added this mode to /etc/fb.modes (but without the line for "rgba") and tried to now use fbset: debian:~# fbset -fb /dev/fb0 -depth 16 "832x624-75" platinum_var_to_par, not enough ram for vmode 13, cmode 1. platinum_set_var: error calling platinum_var_to_par: -22. ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument So now, as before, I'm unable to swith to a higher color depth at this resolution. But now at least I have an error message. Is there any reason for this "not enough ram"? The VRAM of this Macintosh is 1MB (expandable to 4MB I believe). However what I fail to understand is why the Mac OS is able to get a higher color depth than debian/linux on the same hardware. Thanks in advance for any suggestion. Are there other users out there with similar problems? Fernan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]