nope, I tried 32 bit, the dangerous white-out on LCD still happened, the machine was lock (dead, no response to telnet from other machines even). I am not sure how to turn off the accel for the driver, and moreover, there are two drivers one is "ati", and the other is "r128", anybody know which is which? 8MB video ram is enough to do 32bit (Windozw can do that). I also tried the XF86Config file from DELL's website (it was for RH 7.1, but I assume it's ok for ML 8.1 per XFree86). I almost want to give up on this, it's so frustrating to see disk checking when rebooting the machine from dead. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Machine: DELL Inspiron 4000, PIII CPU, 1GB RAM V. Card: ATI Rage Mobility 128 with 8MB RAM LCD screen (highest resolution: 1280x1024) OS: Mandrake Linux 8.1 XFree86: version 4.1.0 (there is a 3.3.6 somehow by Mandrkae Control center, which is XFdrake) Jixian -----Original Message----- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] X hangs with bpp=24 On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:41:13 -0500 "Yao, Jixian (CRD)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick and Charles, > > Don't worry about it Nick. I am trying to set up pV3 which is a viz software for >CFD, and its server > requires 24-bit color depth. The card is decent card with 8MB ram, and at least it >can do that under > Windoze at 1024*768. The X server version is 4.1.0, and when I tried to set it up >with Mandrake > Control center (it's XFdrake acutally), I saw the limitation of the accel server, >then I picked the > plain X 4.1.0, and set the 24 for color depth. After it failed, I then tried to >adjust > /etc/XF86Config manually, no luck so far. By the way, which config file XFree86 >uses? is it > /etc/XF86Config or XF86Config-4? Thanks, > For XF-4.1.0 you want XF86Config-4. Try 32bit, your card, as many, may not support 24. Charles
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