On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:25:08PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: > After lurking on the debian-x mailing list to no avail, and then doing some > 'research' into the palette issue with the current 4.2.1 (might even be > 4.2.x). I seem to get between 16 and 256 colours repeated round and round. > Anything above 8bit colour depths are un-usable. 8bit colour depths as > usable but its not nice. > > I thought at first it could be a debian only issue as the problem occured > during an apt-get upgrade session, however my 'research' showed many others > have the same problem, not only for the debian users but also people building > from source. > > Once or twice (seems to depend on the phase of the moon) the Xserver fires up > properly with the right set of colours in 16bit (and other colour depths) > however this only *ever* happens after a cold reboot if at all. Also when it > does work the gamma is probably around 1.8 ish and cannot be changed. I also > notice that 4.2.x introduced a gamma fix for Trident cards..... > > To me this is a big coincidence.....what do you think > > I have of course attached my XF86Config-4 file and XFree86.0.log file, do > send me tests etc, I really want this fixed as I am condemed to using remote > Xsessions off a windoze box to get a proper looking desktop :-/ > > I have tried the latest binary from > ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/test-driver/trident_drv.o and to no aval, > even with a cold reboot.
Try the updated driver from http://www.xfree86.org/~alanh Make sure you powerdown again. Alan. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
