Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:23:19 +0100 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 can't allocate colors on 4.7-RELEASE Message-ID: <20021112232319.47285c93.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <200211122123.gACLNAH4016061@arch20m.dellroad.org> References: <200211122123.gACLNAH4016061@arch20m.dellroad.org>
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On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:23:10 -0800 (PST)
Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> wrote:
> I recently upgraded an IBM A20m laptop to 4.7-RELEASE and it appears
> that the new version of the X server is broken.
No, it isn't, the problem is that you're running at 8bit colour depth,
hence, the problems with colour allocation. Change the default colour
depth to 16 or 24, that should fix it. Either by starting X with 'startx
-- -bpp 16' or by editing the config file.
Here's the relevant part of the log...
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(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(==) ATI(0): Chipset: "ati".
(==) ATI(0): Depth 8, (==) framebuffer bpp 8
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Cheers,
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