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Re: CONT.:OFF TOPIC:Graphics card -ISA.



On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote:

>The problem is that I'm not able to configure X to work with more then
>800x600x16, When I start it up with -bpp 16 it doesn't look different so I
>don't know whether it works or not. When I tried to configure 1024x768 I
Well, read what X says to you. It says which mode and bpp it's goind to
use.
>had lots of problems, the colors looked weird and the screen cycled
>verticly (the first line becomes the second one and the last one becomes
>the first one...). I tried working with xvditune but it didn't help.
Seems that it's your monitor. Also, you won't get 1024x768x16bpp on 1M:
1024*768*2 is 1572864, it's more than 1M...
>Do you have any suggestions?
What X says?

>BTW: Is there a version of svgalib that can work with more then 256
>colors? Most of the graphic files I work with are true, and it takes ages
All of them. At least recent ones.
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