Fwd: Re: Cirrus GD5446 at 1280x1024 - half way there!

[Robin Atwood]

On Sunday 25 Feb 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Robin Atwood wrote:
> > I have been struggling with this for a week but I am stuck and no one
> > else on various lists has much idea either. Perhaps you guys have the
> > answer. I have installed Solaris 10 in a virtual machine under Qemu.
> > Solaris is configured to use Xorg and Qemu emulates the CL GD5446 video
> > adapter.
>
> [...]
>
> > and the screen section has a default depth of 16.
>
> The default methods of starting X on Solaris pass "-depth 24" on the
> command line, which overrides the xorg.conf file.   You can change the
> depth they pass by running:
>
> svccfg -s svc:/application/x11/x11-server setprop options/default_depth=16
>
> (See the Xserver(1) man page on Solaris for more details.)

>Thanks, but I have already discovered that and made my own Xserver file. Xorg 
>is using 16 bpp but the display is still wrong.

Just to be on the safe side, I removed my override file and used the above 
technique: no difference. Has no Xorg guru got any idea about this? What is 
the significance of only the top half of the display being rendered if the 
video RAM should be enough?

TIA
-Robin.
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Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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