Please--color depth, X

[Sebastian M=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=sch]

Hi,

you should give us some more specs of your hardware. The graphics-chipset
and the specs of the display used for example might be of interest ;-)

To get your type of graphics-chipset: Open a terminal and use the command
"lspci" to get the needed info (there should be a line like "0000:01:01.0
VGA compatible ..."). If you are unable to find the needed info, just post
the "complete" info (where complete means everything you can not identify
yourself).

The specs of your display. If I'm right it's a TFT with a maximum resolution
of 800x600 pixels. Are you sure it's capable of displaying millions of
colors (24 Bit). Maybe your screen is only capable of displaying 32000 or
65536 (16 Bit) of colors.

Please post the sections "Module", "Device", "Monitor" and "Screen" your
current XF86Config - file, so we can recommend some changes for that.

Ted Parks wrote:

> I have just installed Warty on a Toshiba 660CDT laptop. Warty configured a
> color depth in XF86Config-4 as 24, the same as in my other 660CDT running
> Debian Woody. 

> The display is distorted by changing horizontal lines in the
> display. 

What do you mean by "changing horizontal lines", did you change the values
for XTOT and so on (maybe by using xvidtune)?

> Changing the depth to 16 removes the lines, but at the cost of less
> than satisfactory display color and

Sure. But 16 Bit of colors is for normal use almost enough (just my two
cents). 

> resolution.

Within your XF86Config file there are some lines like this ...

 Depth 16
 Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
 EndSubSection

... you can add a resolution you know it's functional by hand.

cu
Sebastian

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