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Topic: Color Depth Problem, Crappy dell, color messed up

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chordmasta Offline

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Posted: May 14 2004,01:56

hey! I LOVE DSL and have gotten 3 friends to use it too! One problem, on my PC, a dell dimension 2400, the color depth is messed up. Its never right, no matter what mode i choose. PLEASE HELP!

Thanks

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Posted: May 14 2004,22:26

Does your Dell do the color correctly in Windows? It is possible that it does, but has a marginal video card that might need to be changed out to get DSL to do the
color correctly. Some of the older cards with less than 2 mb of video ram might give some problems, so it might be worth it to try some other cards.

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roberts

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Posted: May 15 2004,03:19

Have you tried booting the machine with framebuffer? At the boot prompt try
fb800x600 Other than that you may have a video card that is not supported by the tinyX server.

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