Bugzilla – Bug 106251
installs with 8bit color, making slide show graphics look bad
Last modified: 2005-08-23 14:22:22 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...)
Please provide output of "fbset" and "hwinfo --framebuffer".
What graphics card?
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.
Steffen, does that help?
Yes, intel's 845 are renowned for this. Video BIOS has only about 800k, which is just enough for 1024x768x8. Just dump it.