xorg - Monitor Help!

[fctk]

@ solja
did you use amlc to automatically generate the entire Monitor section for your xorg.conf? after you have generated it you have to:
1) backup your old xorg.conf
2) substitute the old monitor section with the amlc generated one

hope it helps...

[dumbo]

"i dunt kno y it says driver can't support depth 24 when i set the defaultdepth to 21 because my monitor supports 21.2 in depth."

"Depth" and "defaultdepth" refers to the number of colours.
8 = 256 colours
16 = 32768 colours
24 = 'truecolour' (billions)
32 = basically the same as 24

You'll most likely want the defaultdepth set to 24 (or 32).

[dgently]

nope same error as b4

i dunt kno y it says driver can't support depth 24 when i set the defaultdepth to 21 because my monitor supports 21.2 in depth.

when i run the auto detect xorg.conf it starts x but den the resolution is soooo big it goes outa da screen.

$oLjA

the option depth in section screen specifies the number of bits it should use for the framebuffer (per pixel). It has _nothing_ to do with the monitor used. Values can be 16 or 24 bit. Use 24 bit to get truecolor display. (some programms which use dga or xv might require 16)

if modprobe nvidia fails show the last lines of dmesg output, nd show your xorg log file.

[solja]

i did show the error/output it gave me after i did emerge nvidia..anyways how do you use almc or are you talking about the auto xorg thing you do ?


and y does it keep on saying cant use depth 24. i can't use 24 (true colors) on this monitor?

Thanx for your reply