From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 09:40:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA21067 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:40:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA21059 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:40:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA11259; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:36:05 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603141736.KAA11259@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: 16 bpp X server? To: eng30219@leonis.nus.sg (Gong Wei) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:36:05 -0700 (MST) Cc: jbrann@panix.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Gong Wei" at Mar 14, 96 11:01:13 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Ok, seems I did not state my problem clearly in previous posting. Sorry > for that. > > Based on what I've learn from readme.cirrus, clgd 5434 with 1M video-ram, > 8M RAM should be able to display in 16 bpp mode. [ ... ] > Any info I've missed? Please email to me. thanks! You are probably trying to start in too high a resolution. 1M is probably insufficient for use of video memory for the screen resolution that you have requested, given that X reserves a small amount of video RAM for a transfer staging area (pixmaps, fonts, etc.). Most likely, when you subtract out this staging area, there is too little memory left over for 16 bpp. Try 800x600, or 640x480. Make sure your virtual screen size isn't larger than your real screen size (default is 1024x768). More questions should probably be directed to the XFree86 people; this isn't really a FreeBSD-specific problem, so there isn't a FreeBSD-specific answer. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.