[newbie] running video in 16 mil colors ? and modem question

1999-02-18 Thread agent25




using mandrake 5.2 with susconfig and renditon 
rpm from xservers from mandrake cd 

I have a diamond stealth s220 and it says its 
capable of running in 16 and 24 bpp
but it always shows in 8 bpp
i tried running startx --bpp 16 but that didnt 
work either 

also when i try to dial it always says my modem is busy it set 
on the correct com (cua2) 
I am pretty sure that its not a 
winmodem

If you can help please respond 
thanks


Re: [newbie] running video in 16 mil colors ? and modem question

1999-02-18 Thread James

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:15:47 -0500, you wrote:

using mandrake 5.2 with susconfig and renditon rpm from xservers from mandrake cd 

I have a diamond stealth s220 and it says its capable of running in 16 and 24 bpp
but it always shows in 8 bpp
i tried running startx --bpp 16 but that didnt work either 

The command is  startx -- -bpp 16  
(dont forget the ^^)
  (two dashes followed by  -bpp 16

   two dashes followed by one dash and bpp 16



also when i try to dial it always says my modem is busy it set on the correct com 
(cua2) 
I am pretty sure that its not a winmodem 

cua2 is com3.  If your modem is on com3 than its correct.  However I
suspect your modem is on com2 which would be cua1.  Understandable
mistake and one many newbies can make.


If you can help please respond thanks

Hope I have been of some help.

 Dennis