Re: [suse-sparc] Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 XServer Problems

From: Alexei Gorbatov (alexei.gorbatov@anu.edu.au)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 23:17:50 PDT

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    From: "Alexei Gorbatov" <alexei.gorbatov@anu.edu.au>
    Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:17:50 +0900
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 XServer Problems
    

    Hi,

           I had the same problem on my Sparc station 4.
    It has 16 bits color depth that can not be recognized automatically.
    Which package contains "hwinfo" ???
    Cheers,

                Alex

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
    To: <suse-sparc@suse.com>
    Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 6:16 PM
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 XServer Problems

    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > On Thu, Sep 14, Morten Kühl wrote:
    >
    > > Hi there!
    > > I've installed 7.0 on my machine.
    > > But at the moment I do have problems with the color depth of the
    > > XServer. It is currently 8bit, looking a little bit poor... ;-(
    > > I would like to change it to 16bits. I runned SaX but i can change
    > > nothing because SaX always starts in automatic mode.
    > > What else can I do, to change the color depth?
    >
    > What graphic card does this machine have ? (Sorry, I don't have
    > a enterprise here ;).
    >
    > hwinfo will show you, which values are used by SaX. Search for
    > the VGA compatible controller output (run "hwinfo -all +sbus" for
    > a short output).
    >
    > If you show me the output, I can say you if there exists a Linux
    > driver with more then 8bits.
    >
    > Thorsten
    >
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