Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:01:26 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> Cc: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, paulbeard@mac.com Subject: Re: XFree86 can't allocate colors on 4.7-RELEASE Message-ID: <200211130601.gAD61Q0C020076@arch20m.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <20021112232319.47285c93.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
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> On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:23:10 -0800 (PST)
> > 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...
> -----
> (II) Setting vga for screen 0.
> (==) ATI(0): Chipset: "ati".
> (==) ATI(0): Depth 8, (==) framebuffer bpp 8
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Thanks! That fixes it. Now I got all the colors and the log shows:
(**) ATI(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
But, um, was this supposed to be obvious? :-) My (wrong) intuition
thought that using fewer bits per pixel would mean less memory
required, thus helping things out, or something...
Anyway, thanks mucho for the help!
-Archie
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