Display mode question

[Francois Prowse]

When I try to disable console_video and enable xvideo I get the following 
error message when starting mol

"No video modes at all was found"

Ok...whats next :)

Cheers

Francois

On Mon, 26 May 2003, Samuel Rydh wrote:

> On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 10:07:21AM +1200, Francois Prowse wrote:
> > Yes - I've been asking the same question....I quite often use my machine 
> > on a 21" monitor and would be really nice to set up MOL to a larger 
> > resolution - why dosn't molvconfig give options for much higher 
> > resolutions? 
> 
> Well, you can add additional modes to /etc/fb.modes (the same
> config file as fbset uses). 
> 
> > Also, for the life of me I'm unable to get MOL working in a Window under 
> > X, any help appreciated
> 
> One good starting point is to disable console_video and enable
> xvideo in /etc/mol/molrc.video. This should give you mol-in-a-window.
> 
> When both console video and xvideo are enabled simultaneously, you
> can switch from console video to xvideo with ctrl-cmd-space.
> Also not that the xvideo driver can't display all depths. If you
> run X in depth 24, then you should change the depth in the MacOS
> control panel to this setting before switching.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> /Samuel
> 
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