8 bit pixel depth with XFree86 4.3.0 and ATI Radeon 9000

[Eric Anholt]

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 19:35, Stephen Hepner wrote:
> Hello everyone....I have an ATI Radeon 9000 and I am having trouble to 
> do better then an 8 bit pixel depth with XFree86 4.3.0.  In the 
> XFree86.0.log, I see that in one part it complains about what I believe 
> is the s-video interface but still loads the "radeon" module.  However, 
> it then loads the "vgahw" module and sets the pixel depth to 8.  I 
> originally tried this with an ATI Radeon 7000 but had the same results.  
> Any thoughts on how to fix this???
> 
> General system info of the current system:
> FreeBSD-5.1-STABLE
> XFree86 4.3.0
> ATI Radeon 9000 64M AGP (VGA and s-video out)

I didn't see anything in your XF86Config to make the depth be higher
than 8.  My Section "Screen" looks like this (note the DefaultDepth and 
you also probably want to explicitly list modes you want to use):

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"

	DefaultDepth 16
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     8
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     15
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
		Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

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