You've obviously got a card that doesn't use the "standard" method of
changing video modes.  IMNSHO, you're probably hosed, unless you want to
spend a _very large_ amount of time reverse-engineering your card's ROM
firmware.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news... :(

On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, David wrote:

> After booting with the Generic kernel with color lkm, I've got X to "start"
> now in both 8bit and 24bit, but both are not in the correct video modes.
> When I looked at the log I see:
> 
> 	Couldn't set video mode to 0X80 or 0x83
> 	Assuming 1 bit-per-pixel mode'...
> 	Screen 0 at 0xfc000000, 640 by 480, rowB 1024, fbbase 0x8437000.
> 
> But, the card never actually changes to 1bit mode.  (Which does, by the
> way, work fine.)
> 
> 
> -->David out.
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