On Sunday 30 December 2001 14:00, you wrote:

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, marcus wrote:

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How do I get 32bit color in 7.3? Yast2 will let me have 16bit only and Sax2 gives me a choice of 8,16 or 24bit.

Previous suggestions:-

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My apologies if you have already supplied this information, but two questions come to mind:

1) What resolution (800x600, 640x480, etc.) are you trying to get? 2) How much video memory do you have?

You may not have enough video memory to get 32bit color at the desired resolution.

Glenn McDavid mailto:gmcdavid@winternet.com http://www.winternet.com/~gmcdavid

My Machine details are:- Pentium3 733mhz 384mb ram Asus GeForce256 32mb DDR HP M70 monitor running at 1024x768

This also depends on the quality of the driver. I have run my Diamond Viper 770 in 32bit/1280X1024 with no issues. But because the human eye can not really see much of a difference over 16bit..I keep it at 16bit. Also, games like Quake3, SofF and Tribes2 tend to run better at this res. Unless you are doing very fine graphics in Gimp or something 16bit/24bit at 1600X1200 or lower should rock. I don't know how good your card actually is..so I can't say much more. Oh one more hint..check the settings for your monitor. Make sure the Horizontal/Vertical synchs are correct for your monitor. If they are to low and sax2 doesn't think your monitor can handle them then you may have issues. Check www.monitorworld.com for the settings of about 99% of the monitors out there. Cheers! * W.D.McKinney (deem@wdm.com) [011229 19:15]: ->I have an ATI 64M DDR Radeon and a 21" Nokia 445PRO (Trinitron) ->and all I can see is 24bit. No option for anything higher in sax or sax2. ->The highest option is 1600x1200 @ 24bit. Oh well ....... -> ->/Dee -> ->Glenn McDavid <gmcdavid@winternet.com> wrote: ->> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, marcus wrote: ->> ->> > How do I get 32bit color in 7.3? Yast2 will let me have 16bit only and Sax2 ->> > gives me a choice of 8,16 or 24bit. ->> > ->> > Previous suggestions:- ->> ->> [snip] ->> ->> My apologies if you have already supplied this information, but two ->> questions come to mind: ->> ->> 1) What resolution (800x600, 640x480, etc.) are you trying to get? ->> 2) How much video memory do you have? ->> ->> You may not have enough video memory to get 32bit color at the desired ->> resolution. -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...