Default Colour Depth in XF86Config-4

[Bill Christiansen]

My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 4090XCDT using Trident Microsystems
Cyber 9525. (Admitadly this is some what older generation) but a
google search revealed several makes and models of similar generation
that dont support 24 bit so I was assuming this was quite common.


On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:03:05 +0000, Daniel Stone
<daniel.stone at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 17:53 +1300, Bill Christiansen wrote:
> 
> 
> > One question I've been meaning to ask that I got reminded of when I
> > did another laptop install of Warty today is why Ubuntu uses 24 bit as
> > the default colour depth when a large number of laptop LCD displays
> > only support 16 bit? This results in the image being too small to fill
> > the LCD screen and the only way to fix it is to manually edit the
> > XF86Config-4 as the configuration script allows you to select
> > resolutions but not colour depth.
> 
> Which laptops have you come across that only support a 16-bit colour
> depth?  If you could provide the names of the laptops and what sort of
> video chipset they were using, I'd be very much obliged.  Thanks.
> 
>