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>>>C - graphic card : No hardware acceleration? I only get thousand of colors
>>>i havent gone into this. just noticed that the display only displays
>>>thousand of colors as the ubuntu desktop background's gradient is not
>>>properly displayed. Also i notice that OpenGL applications (i program
>>>opengl under python) run pretty slow, so i guess there is no hardware
>>>acceleration.
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>>This one confuses me a little. My xorg.conf file (I'm running Hoary)
>>is set to 24 bpp, but photographs and backgrounds look dithered to me.
>>There's a "usefbdev" (or something like that) in the config file that
>>I don't recognize. It's mentioned a lot online, but only how to turn
>>it on and off - not what it actually does. Now, that said, 3D
>>acceleration *seems* to be working here. All of the 3D screensavers
>>perform at an acceptable speed.
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> 
> I would suggest you search through the YellowDogLinux general and
> newbie mailing list archives... something like a Google for...
> site:terrasoftsolutions.com x.org
> 
> This is a problem that was recently discussed and, IIRC, solved on
> these mailing lists.

the funny thing is that i checked the XF86Config file and it seems to be 
displaying 24bits color. But the Ubuntu desktop gradients look like 
16bits. And then there is also this python+opengl application I have 
stuff that runs well slower than in OSX.


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