-On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 10:24, spowers@inland.k12.mi.us wrote:

[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]

...

When I installed RedHat 8.0, I had to add this line to my /etc/X11/XFree86Config file to use 24 bit color rather than 8 bit:

DefaultDepth 24

This line should go inside the Section "Screen" section.

Hope this helps.

Unfortunately, I already have that line.

I've been playing with options, trying to get the picture right. I'm not entirely clear on some of the -vop options, so I've just been trying them randomly. If I use -vop palette, the picture improves in the color area, but it appears like it's painted on canvas. (strange crisscross lines in the video, almost like it's had a photoshop canvas filter applied...)

I can't seem to find any specific documentation on the the options regarding palettes, etc. Some of them even say "finish documenting" in the man page. I am going to keep trying, but I sure wonder why it worked before!

Thank you for any other ideas you may have... -Shawn

I hate when the happens... got something tweaked ... try to make it better... and wham ... back to square 1 Does that palette problem appear in just the videos? or you whole desktop? Perhaps try the xdpyinfo and see if your default screen is actually in 24 bit mode.. default visual id: 0x23 visual: visual id: 0x23 class: TrueColor depth: 24 planes available colormap entries: 256 per subfield red, green, blue masks: 0xff0000, 0xff00, 0xff significant bits in color specification: 8 bits Look for something like TrueColor... in the default visual. Take a peek at /var/log/Xfree86.0.log Find something like the following..."yourcardname" instead of radeonn checking again for true color (24bit) **) RADEON(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps) (==) RADEON(0): Default visual is TrueColor Check for any errors in that log try lsmod sd_mod 11788 0 (autoclean) (unused) radeon 75736 0 <- shouldnt be zero! agpgart 31840 1 (autoclean) parport_pc 21672 1 (autoclean) lp 6720 0 (autoclean) look for nvidia .. look at the 2nd number (the alot smaller one) Make sure it is not zero like the above example. If it is zero there's a chance that the X is using some generic driver rather than your nvid driver and that could explain your bad color problem.. Hope that helps.. Gary