On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 10:07:51AM -0400, RedShift wrote: > I am trying to get Red Hat 9 Linux to work on my Compaq LTE5300 laptop. If I understood it correctly, I believe the version of XFree86 is 4.3.0-2 comes with RH 9. It is equipped with a full complement of memory, 10G HDD and the Cirrus Viking CL-GD 7543 chipset. > > When Linux boots and tries to start the graphical interface, an error saying that the depth of 16 is invalid. With Windows, the machine works fine in 800x600 mode with 16 bit colours. Sounds like it's configured for a vga server or something which doesn't support high color. > Since my machine is not networkable yet, I have not been able to extract the log file to submit with this e-mail. Can you copy it to a disk? Can you paste the Section "Device" and Section "Screen" at least? -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
