Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 07:56:11 -0500 From: Stephen Hepner <shepner@asyla.org> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8 bit pixel depth with XFree86 4.3.0 and ATI Radeon 9000 Message-ID: <3F324C6B.80601@asyla.org> In-Reply-To: <20030807083335.GV728@zeus.theinternet.com.au> References: <3F31BAF7.9050401@asyla.org> <20030807083335.GV728@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
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Thanks for the reply. I tried doing what you suggested and it seems to have fixed that problem :) Now to figure out why my mouse has suddenly developed problems. However, that probably was my fault.... :P stephen Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: >+-------[ Stephen Hepner ]---------------------- >| Hello everyone....I have an ATI Radeon 9000 and I am having trouble to >| do better then an 8 bit pixel depth with XFree86 4.3.0. In the >| XFree86.0.log, I see that in one part it complains about what I believe >| is the s-video interface but still loads the "radeon" module. However, >| it then loads the "vgahw" module and sets the pixel depth to 8. I >| originally tried this with an ATI Radeon 7000 but had the same results. >| Any thoughts on how to fix this??? >| >| General system info of the current system: >| FreeBSD-5.1-STABLE >| XFree86 4.3.0 >| ATI Radeon 9000 64M AGP (VGA and s-video out) > >I have exactly the same card and have no problems with it. > >Try adding DefaultDepth 16 to your Screen section in your XF86Conf >e.g. > >Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Card0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 16 > SubSection "Display" > Depth 16 > Modes "1920x1440" "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > ViewPort 0 0 > EndSubSection >EndSection > >You don't need all the other stuff, but, it helps to set the default modes in >order you want them tried. > >s/16/32/ if you want 32 bpp > > >
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