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I did some digging in a few odd forums and I came up with one |
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possibility. Virtual PC maxes out at 16bbp for the display depth. If the |
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X configuration sets the xorg.conf to run at a default depth of 24 then |
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that would explain a few things. |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Chris Gianelloni [mailto:wolf31o2@g.o] |
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> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 2:27 PM |
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> To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Virtual PC |
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> |
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> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 14:15 -0500, Kessler, Paul wrote: |
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> > I know this is a bit sick in a way, but has anyone tried running a |
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> > LiveCD build under MS Virtual PC? I have a college professor friend |
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> > that would like to try my build, however when he loads the vpc the |
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iso |
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> > seems to boot just fine up until the desktop loads. After that the |
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> > screen goes crazy. I have never used vpc so I'm not really even sure |
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> > where to start. Any suggestions? |
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> |
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> VMWare Player... :P |
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> I would suspect Virtual PC is doing something funky with regards to |
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the |
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> video that the LiveCD isn't understanding. Unfortunately, Virtual PC |
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> doesn't exactly run on Linux, so you definitely won't be able to get |
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any |
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> help from me on it. |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Chris Gianelloni |
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> Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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> x86 Architecture Team |
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> Games - Developer |
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> Gentoo Linux |
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