RIVA128 and color settings

[Mark Bradford]

fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:

Message: 4
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:14:47 -0500
From: Bob Chiodini <chiodr at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: RIVA128 and color settings
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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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
>> 
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Mark,

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

Bob...

I checked the xorg.conf file and there was no videoram setting.  I added the line and then tried to up the color depth to 16, but x again failed to start.  The logfile says "Given depth (16) is not supported by this driver."  The driver is the stock nv driver for the RIVA card.  I didn't have this problem w/ RH9.  Is there an alternative to the nv driver that would run this video card?

Mark



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