starcraft

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:12:13AM -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
> 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?

What resolution is your monitor?  You added 1024x768 to 8bit, but only
800x600 to 16 bit?  What if you made both only do 800x600 and 640x480?

What resolution does your monitor do natively?

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