Bug 106251

Summary:	installs with 8bit color, making slide show graphics look bad
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Dan Winship <danw>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	snwint, yast2-maintainers
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Dan Winship 2005-08-22 18:15:00 UTC

I'm installing beta2 now, and it's installing at 1024x768x8bit, which makes
most of the graphics in the slide show look slightly nasty (the smooth
gradients turn pixelated) because there aren't enough colors available for them
I guess. (They're not *awful*, but they're not exactly polished and
professional-looking.) We should probably tweak the artwork to use fewer colors
if we can't guarantee 24bit color on most machines.

(Unless you think it's a bug that it's using 8bit rather than 24bit color,
in which case I can attach hwinfo output once the install finishes...)

Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-23 07:46:04 UTC

Please provide output of "fbset" and "hwinfo --framebuffer".

Comment 2 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-08-23 08:56:58 UTC

What graphics card?

Comment 3 Dan Winship 2005-08-23 13:59:16 UTC

fbset says:

mode "1024x768-76"
    # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz
    geometry 1024 768 1024 768 8
    timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4
    rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,8/0
endmode

hwinfo --framebuffer doesn't print anything.

The video is built into the motherboard. Xorg.0.log says it's an Intel
845G, using the i810 driver.

Some other possibly-related notes: the boot loader showed up in plain
text rather than graphics, and when the system came back up after the
first reboot (between CD1 and CD2), it had set the video mode to
1280x1024 with very weird timings such that the screen was shifted 1/3
of the way across the monitor horizontally and I had to fiddle with the
front panel controls to get it back where it belonged.

Comment 4 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-23 14:08:35 UTC

Steffen, does that help?

Comment 5 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-08-23 14:22:22 UTC

Yes, intel's 845 are renowned for this. Video BIOS has only about 800k, 
which is just enough for 1024x768x8. Just dump it.