I finally got my SiS running on X, but it runs only at 8-bit colour. I tried deleting the 8-bit section in XF86Config, but I get an error saying 'default 8 bit <section or something> not found'. How can I make X run in 16/24 bit mode? Edited by - abe_bcs on 12/18/00 9:46:08 AM

Here is my first Screen section in /etc/X11/XF86Config:

Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
# Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
#Device "Generic VGA"
Device "Mystique"
Monitor "My Monitor"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Visual "TrueColor"
Modes "1024x768" "640x480" "800x600" "1152x864" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

Note that my video card is a Matrox Mystique.

If you want 32 bits just change the Depth value to 32.

When you do that, you may need to get a calculator
and make sure the Modes are sizes that yer video card
can handle.

Actually, i think there''s a DefaultDepth line you want to change somewhere. It sounds like it''s set to 8 right now.

I''d give you examples, but i''m running 4.0.1, which is different. Do a man XF86Config and look for Default.

Also helpful if you want to have several options in your file, but want to default to one depth.

-ben.c

I''ll try it out. Thanks.

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While we''re at it - how do you get "exotic" resolutions to work properly? I *love* 1280x960 as that keeps the 4:3 aspect ration, gives me 85Hz and nice text sizes. Under Winblowz that is. Linux makes the refresh rate go weird under that resolution and I get "running" lines. (i.e. a straight edge goes all wobbly and moves)
I don''t like 1280x1024 because it makes circles go elliptical and generally "doesn''t look right"

Any idea how I can force horizontal+vertical refresh rate at a resoltion? It''s trying to run it at 85kHz and 85Hz respectively... obviously, that''s not right

Thanks

- JQ
"It''s christmas time/again/it''s time to be nice to the people you can''t stand/all year/I''m growing tired of all this christmas cheer" -Blink 182, I Won''t Be Home For Christmas

startx -- -bpp 16 that will start X in 16-bit mode yeah.

The automatica X config tools don''t set up a default bpp, so you need to add a line like this to the appropriate "Screen" seciont of your XF86Config:

DefaultDepth 16

After careful deliberation, I have come to the conclusion that Nazrix is not cool. I am sorry for any inconvienience my previous mistake may have caused. We now return you to the original programming

JohnnyQuest,

X seems to select the highest refresh rate allowed by the config file. What you''re seeing is probably too high a rate for your monitor. Try selecting the next less capable monitor in XF86Setup or whatever you use.

abe_bcs,

I had the same problem with my Trident 9440. What I had to do was give the parameter med_dram to increase the pixel-clock rate. Higher bpp requires higher memory clocks.