On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:41:22 -0500
"Yao, Jixian (CRD)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have had a real pleasant experience with ML 8.1, but I am having a problem setup 
>up the X on color
> depth of 24. The machine is a dell insprion 4000 (PIII, 1Ghz), video card is ATI 128 
>mobility with
> 8MB ram. When I enforce X to start with 24 bpp by (startx -- -depth 24), it locked 
>the machine
> (C-A-BS etc didn't work) with a white screen (gradually). I tried various setups in 
>/etc/XF86Config,
> but didn't get it to work. Wonder if someone knows the problem and the fix. (16bpp 
>works fine).
> 
 
If you are using 3D hardware acceleration that Is the reason.
3D accel will only run at 16bpp.

If you wish to run at a higher bpp you will ned to change to X 4.10 without
accel.

   Charles


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