Re: still cant get -depth 5+

[Jarod <jarod%jarod.demon.co.uk@localhost>]

> On May 27,  8:41am, "Eduardo E. Horvath" wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 May 1997, Jarod wrote:
> > 
> > > Ive upgraded to 1.2.1, with X11R6.1. So i assumed this would let me run X 
> > > with
> > > a depth of greater than 4. But no!! I get the same bloody error msg (no 
> > > mem, ioctls
> > > etc) 
> > > Im using grf0. So what do I do to get depth of 5-8?
> ...
> > 1) The kernel needs to know how to enable a display of depth>4 (which I
> > believe it should if you have AGA defined.
> 
>   The only display modes which currently allow a depth > 4 are the dblNTSC
> and dblPAL modes.  None of the other display modes know anything about the
> AGA-enhanced capabilities.  The non-AGA display modes need quite a bit of
> modifying to be able to use the AGA enhancements.
> 
> Michael
> 

Can anyone recommend me a monitor that handles dblPAL ;) (im on a tight
budget).

jarod

ps - what are the advantages of dblPAL? i cant remember the spec.