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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