On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Madscientist wrote:
> If windows has the same problem it boots into a 640x480 256 colours thingy.
> Any attempt i make (using knoppix's boot parameters) to get it to use this
> and x windows fails claiming that there is less than 6mb of AGP memory.
Aha. Small PC? No separate graphics card, but a VGA connector built into
the motherboard? This almost certainly means the video chip doesn't
have its own memory array and is using main memory, and this may
need to be set up in the BIOS.
Scratch that. Before you do anything else, run lspci from the command
line and write down the part number for the VGA controller, then Google
for that and XFree86. See if this is a well known problem.
> the manual claims to have 1280x1024 at 24 bit colour. i dont quite know how
> much that is in MB, but its more than most of the other stuff in the room.
24-bit colour is usually actually 32-bit colour - 4 bytes per pixel. You
can work out from that the amount of raw memory needed to hold the
image planes. The catch is that the X server usually wants some extra to
use as temporary image storage. Your big glowing hint here is that the X
server wants 6 MB....
> Im used to a mac and any unix graphics stuff like open office comes in with
> a script that opens apples x11 server and runs it for you and any distro's
> run from KDE etc, so i have no idea
Linux. All the power and nearly all the manuals.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO/
Regards
Ronan
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