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Hi,

I have a Tseng et4000/w32p based graphics adapter with 2MB RAM.
With the tools and drivers provided by the manufacturer, I can
get 64K colors at 1024x768, or 16M colors at 800x600, in Win95.
From this, it appears that the board can work at > 8bpp.

However, when I am in Linux, all attempts to get > 256 colors
fail. The SVGA server says "16bpp is not supported by this chipset."
And the W32 server just hangs in any mode.

I tried the latest W32 accel server, and that also hangs.
Latest SVGA server complains the same - "16bpp is not supported
by this chipset."

In an attempt to get this card to work, I upgraded my machine to
latest Linux (3.0.29), and latest Xfree86 (3.2.A), etc., but no luck!

Has anyone ever managed to get a et4000/w32p with 2MB RAM to yield

Quote:> 256 colors? Or, is the manufacturer doing some tricks in Win95

Should I through my card in to a dust bin and buy a new card?
I just want to get this beast to give me 64K colors. Please help.

Thanks for your timeand help.

Regards.

-- venu

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: > > I have a Tseng et4000/w32p based graphics adapter with 2MB RAM.
: > > With the tools and drivers provided by the manufacturer, I can
: > > get 64K colors at 1024x768, or 16M colors at 800x600, in Win95.
: > > From this, it appears that the board can work at > 8bpp.
: > Yes, XFree doesn't yet support greater than 8 bpp for W32p.  All
: > commercial X servers do, though.  Of course, that means some money, but
: > certainly less money than buying a whole new video card!
: I have the same problem with my ET6000-based video card. And MetroX has
: no ET6000 driver :-( (I have got the Red Hat 4.1)
: Does anyone know where I could find one (if it does exist)?

Try www.xfree86.org and get the 3.2A beta version, works like a dream
for me. And I think the svga server in the non-free version supports

Quote:>8 bpp, too, but it's pretty slow.

: (stuff deleted)
: > Try www.xfree86.org and get the 3.2A beta version, works like a dream
: > for me. And I think the svga server in the non-free version supports
: > >8 bpp, too, but it's pretty slow.
: > Jonas Munsin          Physics student at ?bo Akademi | A social life?
: Does your 3.2A work at > 256 with an ET4000 or 6000? I get a message
: that 16bpp is not supported for the ET4000 yet.

I have an et6000, but as far as I can remember, at least some et4000
should be supported, too. And you are using the _SVGA-server_, aren't
you?

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