Hi, I am a newbie but I need advanced help--sorry if I am posting against protocol. Here are my spec's. ATI Radeon 7000 RV100 QY PCI 32 MB RAM. Kernel 2.4.20-8, Redhat 9.0 [clean install], XFree86 version 4.3.0. I have successfully configured the XF86Config file via XFree86 -configure, then copied the XF86Config.new file to my existing /etc/X11/XF86Config file to get x to start. The display is very grainy and the only setting I am able to change is the resolution [1024x768]. I am certain this is because the color depth is set to 256 colors and I had an error that said "dri does not support depth of [8]" or something to that effect at one point in testing my configuration. When I change the color depth to thousands of colors, X will not start. Could it be DRI? Once again my appologies if this is posted in the wrong area; thanks in advance for your help. Sincerely ...

Hi, the screens section of my XF86Config file is below. The default depth is the default color depth 24, and I also have "Display" subsections for the color depths and resolutions that I want to use. Maybe your default depth is set to 8? You can change it just by manually editing your XF86Config file with a text editor.

# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************

# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "GraphicsCard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
#Option "backingstore"

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0 # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
# Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0 # initial origin if mode is smaller than desktop
# Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
EndSection

Thanks; my XF86Config file doesnt look quite like that but it is similar. I made a few changes to it but I get the same result. Here is an error that I get when I close my GUI and I am returned to the command line:

(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONInitVisualConfigs failed (depth 8 not supported). Disabling DRI.

Thanks in advance for your help...

Okay, I am only posting to myself just in case anyone has a similar problem but is a like myself and wants to find the answer rather quickly. Actually the answer was out there all along but here is what I had to do. I opened XF86Config and found the area where all the #OPTIONS are 'remarked' out. Since the card is a PCI card I went to the ForcePCIMode OPTION and set the value to True. I am not really sure where I found this info but if you google "ForcePCIMode" you will find the solution.

Here are a list of sites I checked out:

ttp://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/packages.html

http://www.opengl.org/users/apps_har...s/Win32/Games/

http://dri.sourceforge.net/res/rescalc.phtml

http://dri.sourceforge.net/help.phtml

http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/DRIbeginner.html

http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/install.html

I hope this helps someone,