Re: Vid card memory

>>Ralph Winslow wrote: ... >> Did you try 24/32 bpp? > >Yes, I got them by default, but + and - (+ and - >on numeric >keypad) don't seem to be working. They only switch screen resolutions, not colour depth. Colour depth is in /etc/XF86Config -- by default it's 8 bpp, unless 8 bpp entry i

Re: Vid card memory

Dima wrote: > > >>Ralph Winslow wrote: > >I've recently added a 1Mb memory module to my Trident TGUi 9440 vid > >card, giving a totla of 2Mb. I'd done this with the expectation that I > >could then use 600x800x2 (16-bit color = 2 bytes) = 96 which is < > >1Mb. But when I try this (forci

Re: Vid card memory

>>Ralph Winslow wrote: >I've recently added a 1Mb memory module to my Trident TGUi 9440 vid >card, giving a totla of 2Mb. I'd done this with the expectation that I >could then use 600x800x2 (16-bit color = 2 bytes) = 96 which is < >1Mb. But when I try this (forcing 600x800 in XF86Config)

Vid card memory

I've recently added a 1Mb memory module to my Trident TGUi 9440 vid card, giving a totla of 2Mb. I'd done this with the expectation that I could then use 600x800x2 (16-bit color = 2 bytes) = 96 which is < 1Mb. But when I try this (forcing 600x800 in XF86Config) X tries to start and dies over