It seems it's apparently a well known issue that fglrx doesn't support 16 bit color depth:
http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html#4_16bit I guess as a workaround xserver could be configured to not try 16 bit when flgrx is loaded, however really the true fix is for AMD/ATI to add better support for 16 bpp. -- [fglrx] doesn't support DefaultDepth below 24, so fglrx generated xorg.conf won't boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/188409 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
