From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 7:22: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9796537B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 07:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 286E243E65 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 07:22:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id DE9314FC9F; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:17:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D94364A0E; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:17:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:17:21 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Chip Wiegand Cc: "freebsd-chat@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: xfree question not answered on the xfree lists, maybe here? In-Reply-To: <20021024064116.13b6b2bf.chip@wiegand.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Chip Wiegand wrote: > When I start X it starts okay except it will only run in 4 bit mode. > Even when I try to force it to 16 bit at the startx prompt, it will > default to 4. I tried to comment out the 4bit subsection the XFree will > only complain that it's not there and fail to load. I know the video > card and monitor will do 16 bit and 1024x768, it was on the previous > install, and the box dual-boots win2000, which is using that config. I > noticed there are no lines for modes in the screens subsections, so I > added one to the 16bit subsection, it only breaks X again. I've included > the XFree86Config at the bottom of this message. > Hopefully someone will be able to help me here. :) > Regards, > Chip W > > ------ > XFree86Config > ------ > Section "Device" > ### Available Driver options are:- > ### Values: : integer, : float, : "True"/"False", > ### : "String", : " Hz/kHz/MHz" > ### [arg]: arg optional > #Option "ShadowFB" # [] > #Option "VGAClocks" # [] > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "vga" > VendorName "SiS" > BoardName "630" > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > EndSection > You're using the VGA driver. I believe that;s limited to 4-bit color. If that's the only driver which will work with that card, you're stuck. Fine in terminal mode, though. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message