Re: [XFree86] mga, Philips 170B2, RHEL3, XF4.3.0: Can't get higher resolutions

2004-07-12 Thread Ryan Underwood
It's using 8-bit color depth, which will make things look pretty rotten. In the Screen section, change the Depth and the DefaultDepth to 24 and see if that meets more with your expectations. -- Ryan Underwood, [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [XFree86] mga, Philips 170B2, RHEL3, XF4.3.0: Can't get higher resolutions

2004-07-12 Thread Guy Waugh
Ryan Underwood wrote: It's using 8-bit color depth, which will make things look pretty rotten. In the Screen section, change the Depth and the DefaultDepth to 24 and see if that meets more with your expectations. Yeah, thanks Ryan, I discovered xvidtune yesterday, and quickly found that 24 bit

Re: [XFree86] mga, Philips 170B2, RHEL3, XF4.3.0: Can't get higher resolutions

2004-07-12 Thread loninappleton
Who is going to unsubscribe me? Been trying for days now. I've already been to all the usual places. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Guy Waugh wrote: Ryan Underwood wrote: It's using 8-bit color depth, which will make things look pretty rotten. In the Screen section, change

[XFree86] mga, Philips 170B2, RHEL3, XF4.3.0: Can't get higher resolutions

2004-07-11 Thread Guy Waugh
Hi there, I have just installed RHEL3 (and upgraded XFree86 RPMs to XFree86-*4.3.0-[55|62]), and can't get video resolutions above 800x600 (at least that's what it looks like). I have a Matrox G550 w/ 32Mb RAM and a Philips 170B2B-40C DVI monitor. Last week, I had Gentoo installed on this box,