I realized that in my BIOS settings I had video memory value as 1 MB instead of 8MB. Thats the reason I was not able to increase the color depth. It works fine now. The BIOS version that I m using is A02. Thanks for ur help. - Bikram. On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:37:36 +0000 S Streif <zzb03ss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Bikram Assal <bikram.assal@xxxxxxx>: > > > I m running RedHat 9 on Dell GX270 with an inbuilt analog video card. DELL > > 1800FP is the monitor with video card of type Intel 865. > > > > Video Card Type = Intel 865 > > Memory = 32 MB > > Driver = i810 > > > > I can only setup the resolution of 1024 X 768 with color depth of 256 > > colors. > > > > If I try to use more than 256 colors, X server won't start. > > Hello Bikram, > Check out this page: > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=118623&perpage=15&pagenumber=2 > > There seems to be a problem with the BIOS version. There also exists a patch to > fix this problem (cf. http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html ). > > Good luck, > Stefan > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list - Bikram Database Specialist, WKU http://www.wku.edu/~bikram.assal/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
