starcraft

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

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> Your monitor will do what it is told. 
It will do what it's told or /try/ what it's told?
>  You do need to have sections in
> the X config for 8 bit in order to do that.
>   
Shouldn't what I've added take care of that?:

EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     16
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
                Modes    "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" "640x400" "640x350"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
                Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

BTW, when I change the above DefaultDepth to 8, my monitor can't handle 
it - it looks as if linux is trying different modes then finally drops 
me to command line. Then I just go into /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reset 
DefaultDepth to 16 and everything goes back to normal. Is it possible 
that my monitor simply can't dumb down to depth 8?

Chris

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