I just upped my X server to 24-bpp display, and I have two questions
regarding this:
First, netscape suddenly started displaying all its icons in a rather
fetching grey/black color scheme. Is this always the case in 24-bit, is
there a known fix, or is my system just weird? :)
Secondly, of course, this made everything slow to a crawl, so I started
wondering for the first time whether there is an accelerated server for
my graphics card (I'm currently running the SVGA server, on potato).
SuperProbe tells me the following information about my card:
First video: Super-VGA
Chipset: Trident ProVidia 9685 (PCI Probed)
Memory: 4096 Kbytes
RAMDAC: Trident Built-In 15/16/24-bit DAC
(with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
My question is - how do I know whether there is an accelerated server
that applies? I have looked through the xserver-* packages in potato and
there are none that obviously apply to this card. But how can I tell
definitively? If there are no accelerated servers, are there any other
ways of speeding up display apart from the obvious? (ie, switch back to
a lower bpp or buy a new graphics card)
Thanks in advance for any help,
Stuart.
