The (partial) answer (was Re: [CLUE-Tech] X resolution)

[Matt Gushee]

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 04:05:09PM -0600, Matt Gushee wrote:
> > 
> > You are defnining a 24 bit color depth which should work with your 
> > memory, but I think that it is actually using 32 bits per pixel which 
> > will go over your actual memory. For right now I'd try to set your 
> > config to use a Depth of 16 bits and see if that works.
> 
> As I stated in my original post, I've tried that and it doesn't work.

Heh, heh ... well, sort of. What I had actually tried was 

  $ startx -- -bpp 16

Well, just now I was looking through some docs and found out that the
-bpp option no longer works. So I was never really running at 16 bpp. So
I tried

  $ startx -- -depth 16

and voila! 1280x1024 resolution. So at least I know it's just a memory
issue.

> > If it does then 
> > try to find out how to make 24 bits only use 24 bits.
> 
> Okay, this might help. Any idea how I might go about it?

Still interested in an answer to this question. I haven't noticed any
settings in XF86Config that would deal with this.

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