On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 07:51, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 12:14:28 +0100 > From: Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: ATI Rage Mobility (Mach 128) under FC-2 > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <c9n16p$8p5$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Sorry to repeat myself, > but does anyone have a machine with this card (or board) > running at 1024x728x16bpp (or better)? > Or 1024x480x16bpp? > > It used to run at the latter resolution > on my Sony C1VFK Picturebook (notebook) > under FC-1 with XFree86, > but it doesn't seem possible to get up to 16bpp under Xorg. > > This is moderately serious, > as there are various applications, eg Mozilla, > which do not run happily at 8bpp. > > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland Tim: I am currently running on a Dell Latitude with an ATI Mobility Radeon. The only way I have managed to get this to work is by booting into text mode (init 3) and then issuing a startx after I logon. This is not an elegant solution but it works. Ed
