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Jatra

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From: Finland

Registered: 2014-01-13

Posts: 22

[SOLVED] Wrong color depth on Xorg

Hi again! From a problem to another. Now I've managed to configurate my system to boot to LXDM and sessions start fine, so goog so far. Next problem:

My color depth is somehow set to 15bit during the installation, so quality is very poor. With wiki, google and search I faced my new enemy, just to surrender again. So far I've tried a command to change color depth, output was something like "there's a X session on tty0" or something, so that didn't work. Can't remember correctly, 'couse I rebooted after that and did't made any log about that. But nothing changed. Then I tried to create a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf-file, that looked like that:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier             "Monitor0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier             "Device0"
    Driver                 "xf86-video-intel 2.21.15-1" #Choose the driver used for this monitor
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier             "Screen0"  #Collapse Monitor and Device section to Screen section
    Device                 "Device0"
    Monitor                "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth           24 #Choose the depth (16||24)
    SubSection             "Display"
        Depth              24
        Modes              "1280x1024_75.00" #Choose the resolution
    EndSubSection
EndSection

After reboot tty0 stucked, but with Ctrl+Alt+F2 I managed to rm that file I just created and then tty0 continued to Lxdm and everything again works fine, except the color depth, witch is still crappy. Something wrong with my code, or is there a easier way? Googled that my old lcd should work fine with 24bit color depth.

Last edited by Jatra (2014-01-15 18:46:42)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: [SOLVED] Wrong color depth on Xorg

Your driver name is wrong. You have the name of the package and not the driver itself. Fix that and see if your problem goes away.

Jatra

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From: Finland

Registered: 2014-01-13

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] Wrong color depth on Xorg

Maybe a very stupid question, but how should I know it?

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] Wrong color depth on Xorg

Maybe a very stupid question, but how should I know it?

The wiki, of course:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel

Jatra

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From: Finland

Registered: 2014-01-13

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] Wrong color depth on Xorg

Thank you!

Well, lscdi | grep VGA  outputs

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

and man intel is telling that

 intel supports the i810, i810-DC100, i810e, i815, i830M,  845G,  852GM,
       855GM,  865G,  915G,  915GM,  945G,  945GM,  965G,  965Q, 946GZ, 965GM,
       945GME, G33, Q33, Q35, G35, GM45, G45,  Q45,  G43,  G41  chipsets,  and
       Pineview-M in Atom N400 series, Pineview-D in Atom D400/D500 series.

so am I facing some compatibility problems..?

Just to be sure before I try again. Sorry for not founding that from Wiki, should be sharper while searching....

Slithery

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Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: [SOLVED] Wrong color depth on Xorg

The 82865G graphics controller uses the 865G chipset so no compatibility issues.

A quick google for 82865G would have told you this.

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ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Wrong color depth on Xorg

Nope.  The 82865G is the Chipset.  That Chipset implements 856G graphics.  You will be fine with the intel driver

Edit: Missed Slithery's correct answer

Last edited by ewaller (2014-01-14 20:26:29)

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Jatra

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From: Finland

Registered: 2014-01-13

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] Wrong color depth on Xorg

Thanks again, guys! Hard to find that name of the Intel video driver is intel...

So, I corrected the driver name and, just to make the file look smarter, the name of the monitor, and now system boots fine and everything looks nice and on smooth on my gui!

I searched several sources, but creating xorg.conf file seemed to be the easiest way for fixing my depth problem. But now, is it some kind of "stupid" or "resource wasting" way? Is there a "lighter" or more "code correct" way? It quite don't matter, but just thinking, because every source tells me that these new versions of xorg should work fine without a config file I just created...