RIVA128 and color settings

Bob Chiodini chiodr at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov
Fri Dec 10 16:14:47 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 10:44, Mark Bradford wrote:
> I have a RIVA128 on a dual boot system running FC2 and WinXP.  On the 
> fedora side I am unable to set the colors above 256, but the XP driver 
> runs at the highest setting with no problem.  I've gotten used to the 
> other limitations of the RIVA card in Fedora, but it seems like I should 
> be able to set the color depth at a higher level for a more attractive 
> display.  I've tried adjusting the settings via both 
> system-config-display and manually going into the xorg.conf file, but if 
> I bump up the setting x fails to start.  Any suggestions of how to fix 
> the problem, or any suggestions of an inexpensive replacement that would 
> provide 3D support w/o dealing with the nvidia driver disaster?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
Mark,

Is the videoram parameter set correctly in your xorg.conf file?

Bob...
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