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Tiny Core Base => TCB Bugs => Topic started by: meo on December 26, 2008, 09:44:22 AM

Title: Not displaying the right colors in browser with nm2360 chip
Post by: meo on December 26, 2008, 09:44:22 AM

Hello everyone!

I'm new here and it might not be a bug. I might just need another driver to my computers graphic chip. The thing is that I have 1024x768x16 in resolution and color but it seems to me that the system is trying to show 1024x768x24 instead of 16 as it should be. I have a neomagic 2360 chip in a dell latitude CS 500. I have tried to solve it but I just can't. So if anyone know how to solve this problem I'd be most grateful because the colors in opera looks horrible. Thanks beforehand!

Have fun with TCL,
meo

Title: Re: Not displaying the right colors in browser with nm2360 chip
Post by: Juanito on December 26, 2008, 10:05:48 AM

Are you using Xvesa or full X?

What does ~/.xsession say - x16 or x24?

Title: Re: Not displaying the right colors in browser with nm2360 chip
Post by: meo on December 26, 2008, 10:50:14 AM

Hi Juanito!

I started without boot codes and then the .xsession was 1024x768.32. I changed with the xvesasetup and now after restarting the wm I have 1024x768x16 but the colors are just as horrible as they were. So maybe there is a bug there or it isn't using the right driver. I wonder what to do next. Perhaps the solution would be to put up a full X. What do you think?

Have fun,
meo

MODIFIED after c:a 40 minutes.

Title: Re: Not displaying the right colors in browser with nm2360 chip
Post by: ke4nt on December 26, 2008, 11:32:20 AM

Hey meo,

Did you ever need to use xfbdev on that machine instead of XVesa?
I have a laptop that simply won't use XVesa , regardless of settings, but uses Xfbdev ok.

There is an Xfbdev extension available..

73
ke4nt

Title: Re: Not displaying the right colors in browser with nm2360 chip
Post by: meo on December 26, 2008, 11:44:12 AM

Hi ke4nt!

I haven't needed it before. I has always worked with xvesa. But it might be worth a shot. Thanks for the tip!

Have fun,
meo

Title: Re: Not displaying the right colors in browser with nm2360 chip
Post by: roberts on December 26, 2008, 12:23:14 PM

Welcome meo,

I am using the Xfbdev extension on my Neomagic NM2160 notebook and it works great!
If you were booting DSL with say fb800x600, then you will need to use this extension.

Title: Re: Not displaying the right colors in browser with nm2360 chip
Post by: meo on December 26, 2008, 03:11:35 PM

Hi again Robert!

Well it works fine in DSL with xvesa as I mentioned. But I don't seem to get it to work right in Tiny Core Linux. That's a shame because I'd like to explore the development further. Any suggestions that may help me out in this are welcome.

Have fun,
meo

Title: Re: Not displaying the right colors in browser with nm2360 chip
Post by: tobiaus on December 29, 2008, 08:19:52 AM

there is also an xvesa.tce extension in the appbrowser. i haven't used it (i should try it) but i believe it is more complete than tc's xvesa.

Title: Re: Not displaying the right colors in browser with nm2360 chip
Post by: meo on March 11, 2009, 02:16:08 AM

Hi again!

Just tried the 1.2 version and there is no problem with the colors anymore. So far everything seems to work just as they shall. I have just made an entry in menu.lst in grub so I can start Tiny Core Linux directly from the harddrive. I simply store the boot directory (after burning tcl to a cd/rw) to hda1 and the entry in menu.lst points to this. Thanks for a very nice and cleancut linux distro!

Have fun everyone with TCL,
meo

P.S. I'm posting this from tcl using opera D.S.