[plug] Linux beginner question - Xfree86

[Neil Hunt]

Doug Clulow wrote:
> 
> The Cirrus Logic card (well the one I had anyway) needs 2 M of memory to run
> 16 bit colour.  I spent a long time tryingto make it work with startx -bpp16,
> and eventually discovered after a laborious RTFM session that I couldn't do
> it.  Hope I
> spare someone similar efforts...
> 
> Doug
> 
G'day Doug,
I'm running a Cirrus Logic card with 1Mb RAM, and can run 16bpp in X
fine, I just did a manual install, instead of letting my card be probed,
and it works fine!
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