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Originally Posted by BSDfan666
That's odd, I don't see why it would be restricted to 8bpp, did you try 16?
Also, I'd recommend avoiding Nvidia cards, new or old.. they're all pretty much undocumented in the Unix world.
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I tried it. It spit back an error saying that the driver doesn't support 16bpp. No big deal. This is mainly a tinkering box, not a primary workstation. I won't be using X that much anyway. I'm more interested in getting comfortable under the hood.
Agreed on the Nvidia stance. Closed drivers are bad. But how do you argue with a spare card that just happens to be handy? I have an ATI Mach64 laying around too, but it's from 1991; even older than the Riva.
- Ogre