On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Jim Kovalchuk wrote:
> the only thing that dmesg displays is : > fb0: cgsix at e.20000000 TEC Rev 2 CPU 68020 Rev 7 [GX] > > what kinda frame buffer is this ? Its an 8 bit frame buffer with hardware accel, use xserver-xsun and she'll run fine. Regards, Peter Firmstone. > > > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Q89029292 wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Jim Kovalchuk wrote: > > > > > Hi, just installed potato on my sparcstation 10. Seems i cant run X in > > > 16bpp mode. Is this a hw limitation ? Does my video buffer not have enough > > > memory to run in 16bpp mode ? How do i find out what video buffer i have > > > ? > > > > from the command line enter the command $ dmesg > > > > the look for the line that begins with fb0: > > > > Your card will either be 8 bit or 24 bit color. > > > > Regards, > > > > Peter Firmstone. > > > > > > > >