video mode/depth not supported

Nathanael Hasbrouck mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Sat, 10 Apr 2004 17:55:15 -0400


On Saturday 10 April 2004 1246, somebody named Joost Kremers inscribed this 
message:
> hi list,
>
> i installed MoL a couple of days ago, and it's running beautifully. i'm
> using it to run OS X (10.2) on my ibook.
>
> i do have one question, though. ATM i can only use MoL with the
> framebuffer on the console. in itself, this is not a problem, but i
> think i'd prefer to run it inside an X window. but when i specify
> 'enable_xvideo: yes' in molrc.video, i get the message "The current
> video mode/depth is unsupported by the X11 video driver", and MoL
> switches to the console
> automatically. just before the switch, i get the following output from
> MoL:
>
> Video driver(s): [xvideo] [console_video]
>
>      640* 480, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>      800* 600, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>     1024* 768, depth 8,15,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>     1152* 864, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>     1280*1024, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>     1600*1200, depth 8,32   { 0.0 } Hz
>
> my X server is running at colour depth 24, 32 is not supported, and i'd
> rather not run at 8. ;-) does this mean i won't be able to run MoL
> inside X, or did i overlook some configuration setting?

Have you run molvconfig?  If not, that's probably what you want to do....

NRH
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