Re: Newbie Help Required!

From: Sebastian (bastiraase_at_web.de)
Date: 11/09/03


Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 14:31:16 +0100

THANK YOU!
I searched a very long time because my graphic card
(ELSA Erazor III) only works correct in >8bit color depth
because of incompatibilities with X.

Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> Sebastian <bastiraase@web.de> wrote:
>> Maybe you're using the wrong driver, or it's too old.
>> It can't find you're card ... is it working with another xserver?
>
>> But I've another question: How do I set up the number of colors (8,
>> 16, 24, 32-bit) under NetBSD 1.5.2?
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Radeon"
> Device "Radeon"
> Monitor "Envision"
> DefaultColorDepth 24
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> See the DefaultColorDepth line? That determines the depth. If it's
> missing, I believe it defaults to 8.
>
> Adam



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