From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 05:56:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1296037B401 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 05:56:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.asyla.org (CPE-65-30-212-208.wi.rr.com [65.30.212.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A6F7243F93 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 05:56:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shepner@asyla.org) Received: (qmail 78344 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2003 12:56:22 -0000 Received: from video.asyla.org (HELO asyla.org) (10.0.0.186) by target.asyla.org with SMTP; 7 Aug 2003 12:56:12 -0000 Message-ID: <3F324C6B.80601@asyla.org> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 07:56:11 -0500 From: Stephen Hepner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Kenneth Milton References: <3F31BAF7.9050401@asyla.org> <20030807083335.GV728@zeus.theinternet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030807083335.GV728@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA, X_ACCEPT_LANG autolearn=ham version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-Spam-Report: If the original email is spam then it is attached to this report Total points: -1.70 with 5 neededheader IN_REP_TO (-0.5 points) Has a In-Reply-To header non-spam MUA (Mozilla) X_ACCEPT_LANG (-0.1 points) Has a X-Accept-Language header email attributionquoted email text REPLY_WITH_QUOTES (-0.5 points) Reply with quoted text AWL (0.9 points) AWL: Auto-whitelist adjustment X-DCC-dmv.com-Metrics: target.asyla.org 1181; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8 bit pixel depth with XFree86 4.3.0 and ATI Radeon 9000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 12:56:25 -0000 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 > > >