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[Rob Mukai <dothedog2010@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I just tried changing the DefaultDepth to 16 to see what would happen.
Not pretty. I also did a
xdpyinfo | grep "of root"
  depth of root window:    24 planes

So it looks like it is in 24 bit color depth. I wonder why it is rendering
the gradients so poorly...

DoTheDog

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Rob Mukai <dothedog2010@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Nicklas and Damien, Yeah I noticed both problems, fn+F1 doesn't work for me
> either (tried xev and no response) also color depth seems to be a problem
> for me as well. I tried putting in an xorg.conf like this:
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> DefaultDepth 24
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "glx"
> EndSection
>
> but it doesn't seem to help.
>
> Finally, FYI I did post my ubuntu installation instructions in the
> ubuntuforums here:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1850544
>
> DoTheDog
>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Nicklas Overgaard <nicklas@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>  On 2011-09-27 10:55, Damien R wrote:
>>
>> On 26 September 2011 22:45, Rob Mukai <dothedog2010@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> NIcklas, Well over the weekend, I tried installing the fglrx driver from
>>> ATI and it completely blew up my install. I ended up reinstalling from
>>> scratch, following my notes. A couple of things, 1. I will wait for better
>>> support of the PMD Graphics card before trying again ;) 2. I didn't need to
>>> upgrade MESA to get full 3d/compiz working with the 3.1.0-rc6 kernel. MESA
>>> 7.10.2 works just fine. Everything else went in fine as per my notes. vaio
>>> patched kernel, WWAN, Clickpad, Power Management, FN buttons, etc. Maybe
>>> I'll post my install notes. See if you can see anything different.
>>>
>>
>> Nice !
>> I have a question regarding FN Buttons, does FN+F1 key work ? For me, the
>> key is not recognized even with the xev utility.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Damien R.
>>
>>  No, my fn+f1 is not working.. not even in wintendo 7 :)
>>
>> Btw, I discovered something strange during the weekend....
>>
>> I'm on RC6 kernel, stable mesa. When i'm using the laptop with the onboard
>> screen, it looks like the color depth is 16 bits -> crappy drawing of
>> gradients and transparency in my terminals is kind of ugly. On the other
>> hand, when i'm using the external display via HDMI, it's runinng 24 bits (or
>> what ever it's called), so nice gradients, perfect transparency etc.
>>
>> I wonder how that is? Is the onboard screen reporting something weird to X
>> or another subsystem? Or is X or subsystem Y failing to recgonize that the
>> onboard screen is capable of higher colordepths?
>>
>> My 5 cents for now :) I'm waiting for the open-source ATI graphics stack
>> to pick up the support - the Catalyst drivers has also destroyed a big part
>> of my setup a week ago, managed to recover though.
>>
>> /Nicklas
>>
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