RE: [gentoo-catalyst] Virtual PC

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 14:37 -0500, Kessler, Paul wrote:
> I did some digging in a few odd forums and I came up with one
> possibility. Virtual PC maxes out at 16bbp for the display depth. If the
> X configuration sets the xorg.conf to run at a default depth of 24 then
> that would explain a few things.

Which it does.

You could try using something like local.start to change the
DefaultDepth, or even changing the mkxf86config script itself via your
fsscript.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Gianelloni [mailto:wolf31o2@g.o]
> > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 2:27 PM
> > To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Virtual PC
> >
> > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 14:15 -0500, Kessler, Paul wrote:
> > > I know this is a bit sick in a way, but has anyone tried running a
> > > LiveCD build under MS Virtual PC? I have a college professor friend
> > > that would like to try my build, however when he loads the vpc the
> iso
> > > seems to boot just fine up until the desktop loads. After that the
> > > screen goes crazy. I have never used vpc so I'm not really even sure
> > > where to start. Any suggestions?
> >
> > VMWare Player... :P
> >
> > I would suspect Virtual PC is doing something funky with regards to
> the
> > video that the LiveCD isn't understanding.  Unfortunately, Virtual PC
> > doesn't exactly run on Linux, so you definitely won't be able to get
> any
> > help from me on it.
> >
> > --
> > Chris Gianelloni
> > Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
> > x86 Architecture Team
> > Games - Developer
> > Gentoo Linux
>
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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux