I have a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster 3D with 4MB and there seems to be a severe lack of colour. When I try to startx -- -bpp 16 a horizontal bar of noise appears on the screen and the server locks up. The server I am running is XF_SVGA and I would have thought with having 4MB it would run okay. My monitor is Idek IIyama Vision Master 450 and I don't think this is the problem. Any thoughts or Ideas on how to solve this would be greatfullt received. Chris Gilchrist. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Dear Chris, This card is supposed to have Cirrus GD5464 chip and supported by Xfree 3.2 (upwards) at 8bpp, 16bpp, 24bpp and 32bpp. Check your version and also have alook at README.cirrus that come with the XFree86 distribution. Selva On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, chris gilchrist wrote: I have a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster 3D with 4MB and there seems to be a severe lack of colour. When I try to startx -- -bpp 16 a horizontal bar of noise appears on the screen and the server locks up. The server I am running is XF_SVGA and I would have thought with having 4MB it would run okay. My monitor is Idek IIyama Vision Master 450 and I don't think this is the problem. Any thoughts or Ideas on how to solve this would be greatfullt received. Chris Gilchrist. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Pls. see my response below - At 09:41 AM 09/08/98 +0100, chris gilchrist wrote:
I have a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster 3D with 4MB and there seems to be
a severe lack of colour.
When I try to startx -- -bpp 16 a horizontal bar of noise appears on the screen and the server locks up. The server I am running is XF_SVGA and I would have thought with having 4MB it would run okay. My monitor is Idek IIyama Vision Master 450 and I don't think this is the problem. Any thoughts or Ideas on how to solve this would be greatfullt received. Chris Gilchrist.
Is the chipset in your video card supported by the XF_SVGA server? If not, then it defaults to 8 bit color even if you have 4MB memory. Also, is this an AGP video card? Xserver (SVGA) for Riva128 (AGP version) is known to lock up when the AGP card shares an IRQ with another card. Plus, you might try xvidtune to fine tune the parameters of your ModeLine once you have a working X system. You may also visit <A HREF="http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.2/README.html"><A HREF="http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.2/README.html</A">http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.2/README.html</A</A>> and follow the links for the latest supported hardware. XFree86 3.3.2.3 servers have just released on SuSE's FTP site; d'load the server that supports your video chip. HTH -- Arun Khan - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
On Tue Sep 08 1998, chris gilchrist wrote:
I have a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster 3D with 4MB and there seems to be a severe lack of colour.
I'm not at all sure if XFree86 supports this chipset, although I suspect from the Cc's that you are using SuSe, which might have this support.
When I try to startx -- -bpp 16 a horizontal bar of noise appears on the screen and the server locks up. The server I am running is XF_SVGA and I would have thought with having 4MB it would run okay. My monitor is Idek IIyama Vision Master 450 and I don't think this is the problem. Any thoughts or Ideas on how to solve this would be greatfullt received.
If the chip is supported by your driver, 4Mb will allow you to do 16bpp no problems. There should be a subsection in the "screen" section of your X configuration file that refers to 16-bit colour depth. Check the modelines for the resolutions defined there - they may need some tweaking. If all else fails, re-run your X configuration program to rebuild the config file. Cheers Tony - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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