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Old 07-05-2002
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X has a blueish tint...
So I decided to go ahead and install Gentoo ... everything went great. I emerged X and then ran "X -configure" to get X setup.

Well ... the resolutions is great ... but ... everything has this blue-ish tint to it. Im not sure if its just because X isn't running in enough colours or what the deal is ... but any help would be appreciated.

Its an old P3 @ 400Mhz ... 15" Cybervision C50 monitor running an old piece of crap S3 Trio32 video card.
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Old 07-07-2002
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Have you tested X in lower resolutions? S3 Trio32 doesn't have enough memory for big resolutions (but then again, 15" monitor can't display them either). With 2M memory, 1024x768x16 should work, and that's about the best possible resolution for that card.
Oh, by the way, which version of X is it?
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Old 07-07-2002
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Its X 4.20 ... the latest download from gentoo.org (r12?) ....

And so far as I can tell, X is actually only running in 640x480 resolution ... not sure of the bitdepth, tho i dont think its more then 256 colors.
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Old 07-08-2002
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You could try the following:

Find out which gfx chip your card has - the exact model

Run xf86setup, choose the driver for that model

Set resolutions & color depths right
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Old 07-08-2002
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Actually its weird ... if I start up plain X ... its all blue-ish.

When i do "kdm" .. the initial KDE logon screen is blue-ish ... upon actually starting KDE ... everything looks fine, but very lo-res and low colour ...

how do I specify in the X config file what default resolution and colors to use?
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Old 07-09-2002
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Quote:
Originally posted by ryejay98
how do I specify in the X config file what default resolution and colors to use?
In /etc/X11/XF86Config (or XF86Config-4), you'll find the following lines:
Code:
Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "S3 Savage4"
    Monitor     "Samtron 96P"
    DefaultDepth 16

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection
This is where you can edit screen resolution and color depth (DefaultDepth). Resolutions are used from left to right; if the first one doesn't work, the next one is tried. You can also change the resolution when running X by pressing CTRL + ALT + numpad - or CTRL + ALT + numpad +, it cycles through those resolutions.
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Old 07-09-2002
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WOOHOO - I simply added the defaultdepth line (it wasnt there) and now it works perfectly.

You're faboo
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