8 bit pixel depth with XFree86 4.3.0 and ATI Radeon 9000

[Stephen Hepner]

Thanks for the reply.  I tried doing what you suggested and it seems to 
have fixed that problem  :)  Now to figure out why my mouse has suddenly 
developed problems.  However, that probably was my fault....  :P

stephen
Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:

>+-------[ Stephen Hepner ]----------------------
>| 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 have exactly the same card and have no problems with it.
>
>Try adding DefaultDepth 16 to your Screen section in your XF86Conf 
>e.g.
>
>Section "Screen"
>        Identifier "Screen0"
>        Device     "Card0"
>        Monitor    "Monitor0"
>        DefaultDepth 16
>        SubSection "Display"
>                Depth     16
>                Modes "1920x1440" "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>                ViewPort   0 0
>        EndSubSection
>EndSection
>
>You don't need all the other stuff, but, it helps to set the default modes in
>order you want them tried.
>
>s/16/32/ if you want 32 bpp
>
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