bad color depth in osx

[Mattias Nissler]

Hi,

well, I've got a radeon in my somewhat older powerbook 17'' and it  
works fine. What framebuffer driver are you using? Have you tried to  
set color depths via fbset? Normally, MOL should set the color depth  
for you.

Mattias

On 02.08.2005, at 11:26, tristan wrote:

> hi there, i got a problem with mol and my powerbook G4 17'' (nvidia)
> i can run startmol -X, osx starts successfully, BUT,
> display is garbaged, it seems that color depth is not correct, only 16
> colors displayed.
>
> any clue? what could cause this? is it due to my framebuffer config?
> my terminal screen VT1-6 is in high resolution, but i don't know  
> where i
> could configure the color depth for console framebuffer...
> on x86 machines, i append vga=791 to kernel parameters in grub, but on
> ppc?
>
> thanks for your help!!!
>
>
>
> Here are my config files:
>
> ############################# /etc/mol/molrc.video (left default)
> # -*- perl -*- (for emacs syntax coloring)
> #
> # Mac-on-Linux video configuration
> #
> #  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Startup Resolution (this is used as a hint only)
> #  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> resolution:             640/480/75     # width/height/Hz
> depth:                  32
>
>
> #  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> # X11 Settings
> #  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> enable_xvideo:          yes
>
> #  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Fullscreen (Console/fbdev) Settings
> #  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> enable_console_video:   yes
> start_on_console:       no       # switch to console initially
> autoswitch_console:     yes      # allow automatic switching to  
> console
> #fb_modes:           /etc/fb.modes   # extra video modes for  
> molvconfig
>
> #  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> # XDGA (X11 fullscreen) Settings
> #  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> enable_xdga_video:      no
>
> #  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> # VNC Settings
> #  
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> enable_vncvideo:        no      # Enable the VNC server
> vnc_port:               5900    # port to use for VNC
> ###############################################################
>
> ############################# /etc/mol/molrc.osx (left default)
> # -*- perl -*- (for emacs syntax coloring)
> #
> #  /etc/mol/molrc.osx
> #
> #  Mac-on-Linux master configuration file for MacOS X booting
> #
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---------
> # Parse other config files (these files are in /etc/mol/)
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---------
> include         ${etc}/molrc.video      # video configuration
> include         ${etc}/molrc.input      # mouse and keyboard
> include         ${etc}/molrc.net        # networking
> include         ${etc}/molrc.sound      # sound
>
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---------
> # Misc Settings
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---------
> ram_size:               256
> disable_altivec:        no
>
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---------
> # OS X Volumes
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---------
> blkdev:                 /dev/cdrom      -cd ${cdboot}
>
> ifempty ${altconfig} {
>     # default configuration
>     blkdev:             /dev/hda3       -rw
>     blkdev:             /dev/sda        -rw
>     blkdev:             /dev/sdb        -rw
>
> } else {
>     # alternate configuration
>     blkdev:             /tmp/osx.image  -rw
>     #blkdev:            /dev/loop0      -rw
> }
>
>
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---------
> # SCSI configuration (also relevant for IDE CDs and other SCSI-like
> devices)
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---------
> autoprobe_scsi:         yes
>
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---------
> # USB Configuration
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ---------
> enable_usb:             yes
> #############################################################
>
>
> ############ /var/lib/mol/fb_modes
> 1440 900 1440 900 0 0 10000 16 16 16 16 8 8 0 0
> 1 0 8 1536 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> ################################
>
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