Bug#617184: xorg -depth 8 fails (colourmap broken) on Thinkpad R50p

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 02:25 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: 
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:6.13.1-2+squeeze1
> 
> If I say
>   X vt9 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp -retro -depth 8 :3
> 
> I get an X server whose colour map seems entirely broken.  The initial
> startup screen is entirely black (the weave requested by -retro is
> missing), although the mouse cursor is visible.
> 
> Asking xdm to run the same server and give me a login screen results
> in an almost-illegible dim greyscale display.

See

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2011-February/019092.html

In my quick testing, the radeon driver seems to have further
pseudocolour issues at least with KMS enabled, but this will definitely
need to be fixed in xserver first.


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