Message-ID: <003401c01edc$acc4f040$f508cb96@anu.edu.au> 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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