Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness / Color Depth 32

LeoSolaris · 2009-01-27 12:59:44

I have tried and tried again to compile On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness from the AUR on my 64-bit system, and time and again it has failed.

I wrote to hothead games, and they advised me to set my monitor's Depth to 32 bpp... trouble is, when I add the mode to my xorg.conf, nvidia's auto detection ignores it, and continues to refuse to grant me more than 24 bpp. I know that this laptop is able to handle that color depth, as this game played flawlessly a few months back under Ubuntu. That and it is not an old computer, it's just over a year old now.

Anyone know how to fix this?

For what it's worth, here is my xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
#    InputDevice    "SynapticsTouchpad"  "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "xtrap"
#    Load  "dri"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier      "Mouse0"
    Driver           "synaptics"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
    Option        "SHMConfig" "True"
    Option          "VertEdgeScroll" "True"
    Option        "HorizEdgeScroll" "True"
    Option        "CircularScrolling" "On"
    Option          "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName     "Monitor Model"
    HorizSync            30.0 - 130.0
    VertRefresh    50.0 - 100.0 
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier             "Card0"
    Driver                  "nvidia"
    VendorName       "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName         "GeForce 8400M GS"
    BusID                  "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option               "NvAGP" "3"
    Option                "AddARGBGLXVisuals"
    Option                "NoLogo" "true"
    Option                "CoolBits" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    #SubSection "Display"
    #    Viewport   0 0
    #    Depth     1
    #EndSubSection
    #SubSection "Display"
    #    Viewport   0 0
    #    Depth     4
    #EndSubSection
    #SubSection "Display"
    #    Viewport   0 0
    #    Depth     8
    #EndSubSection
    #SubSection "Display"
    #    Viewport   0 0
    #    Depth     15
    #EndSubSection
    #SubSection "Display"
    #    Viewport   0 0
    #    Depth     16
    #EndSubSection
    #SubSection "Display"
    #    Viewport   0 0
    #    Depth     24
    #    Modes "1280x800"
    #EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     32
        Modes "1280x800"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enabled"
EndSection

Here is an image of nVidia telling me that 32 color depth doesn't exist:

Last edited by LeoSolaris (2009-01-27 13:01:26)

Allan · 2009-01-27 13:16:23

Try adding a "DefaultDepth 32" to your Screen section

LeoSolaris · 2009-01-27 13:31:39

Just to make sure, am I adding it like this:

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth  "32"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     32
        Modes "1280x800"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

or

ection "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
           SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        DefaultDepth  "32"
        Modes "1280x800"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

?

Last edited by LeoSolaris (2009-01-27 13:32:00)

LeoSolaris · 2009-01-27 13:34:54

Strange... the two Subsections in those two boxes were aligned properly when I copied them and hit submit. I wonder what got them out of alignment when they are displayed on the forum.

C'est la vie.

Allan · 2009-01-27 13:37:41

Top one.

LeoSolaris · 2009-01-27 13:41:49

Alright,
Tried it, apparently my laptop's monitor doesn't support it? I set it, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace'd, and slim never came back. So I signed into my user, and tried startx. That gave me the error, Color depth not supported.

Weird. I know I have had that color depth before.

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#1 2009-01-27 12:59:44

Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness / Color Depth 32

#2 2009-01-27 13:16:23

Re: Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness / Color Depth 32

#3 2009-01-27 13:31:39

Re: Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness / Color Depth 32

#4 2009-01-27 13:34:54

Re: Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness / Color Depth 32

#5 2009-01-27 13:37:41

Re: Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness / Color Depth 32

#6 2009-01-27 13:41:49

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