by Dan Waite » Tue, 03 Feb 1998 04:00:00
I am running the S.u.S.E. Matrox X Server with a Matrox Mystique 220 video
card. I can get up to 24 bit color depth at 1024x768, which is my typical
resolution. When I load a few programs, however, (such as control panel,
xterm, and emacs) my color depth drops to 8 bits. I have 32 MB of RAM and
a 40 MB swap space. I know I should be able to see 24 bit color with
several programs running. What do I do?
1. Problem with color-depth XF86_Mach32
I am currently using XFree86 3.1.2 running Red Hat linux 2.1 on a Leading
Edge pentium 90, 16mb, ATI Mach32 1mb video ram, ...
I have used the Xconfigurator script to set up my XF86Config file. In
the Xconfigurator script everything seemed to go fine. I'm able to
get the X server up and running great at 1024X768 but only 6 bbp. I have
checked the option in the script to add the line which would specify
that I want the ramdac to use 8 bbp. But I am still receiving only 6bbp
when I do a X -probeonly. I had this running correctly once
before, but have long since reinstalled several times.
The following is my probe:
Is there something I'm missing?
The monitor is wrong as well. I've got a Goldstar 17" 1725, but the
other 17 inchers seems to work just fine.
XFree86 Version 3.1.2 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6000)
Operating System: Linux
Configured drivers:
Mach32: accelerated server for ATI Mach32 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0)
(using VT number 7)
XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config Thanks in advance! Mark J. Nickel 2. booting without the help of boot floppy 3. SiS 6326 problems(8 colour depth only) 5. Problem setting color depth in RH 6.1 6. Problem with two UPA framebuffers 7. NewbieQ: color and color depth 8. is BC210 printer OK for Linux 10. Question: How to change color depth (number of colors) on Solaris 8? 12. Kernel Color Depth Problem 13. X Windows color depth problem solved!
(**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
(**) Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate: 1200,
3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms)
(**) Mach32: Graphics device ID: "Generic Video Card"
(**) Mach32: Monitor ID: "IDEK Vision Master 17 (5)"
(**) FontPath set to
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/
,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
(**) Mach32: Option "dac_8_bit"
(--) Mach32: card type: PCI
(**) Mach32: Number of Clocks: 32
(**) Mach32: clocks: 99.41 125.93 92.25 35.97 50.32 56.56 0.00 44.90
(**) Mach32: clocks: 135.40 31.93 109.66 79.58 39.81 44.96 74.87 64.95
(**) Mach32: clocks: 49.70 62.97 46.12 17.98 25.16 28.28 0.00 22.45
(**) Mach32: clocks: 67.70 15.96 54.83 39.79 19.91 22.48 37.44 32.48
(--) Mach32: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 80.000 MHz
(**) Mach32: Mode "1024x768_2": mode clock = 75.000, clock used = 74.870
(**) Mach32: Mode "640x480_1": mode clock = 31.500, clock used = 31.930
(**) Mach32: Mode "800x600_5": mode clock = 50.000, clock used = 49.700
(**) Mach32: Virtual resolution: 1024x768
(--) Mach32: Display width: 1024
(**) Mach32: videoram: 1024k
(--) Mach32: Using hardware cursor
(--) Mach32: Using 4 MB aperture
(--) Mach32: Ramdac is AT&T20C49[01]/Bt48[12]/IMS-G174/MU9C{1880,4910}/SC1502[56]
(--) Mach32: Using 6 bits per RGB value