Comment 51 for bug 140051

I have seen this, as well. Thought it was a GX thing, but I guess
not. In the logs, it seems to assume the color depth of the
framebuffer. Not sure why...

-Gadi

On Jan 25, 2008 4:27 PM, Martin-Éric Racine <email address hidden> wrote:
> As previously reported, DDC works as expected when booting the X server
> and AMD driver available in my PPA on hardware booting from a hard-disk.
>
> However, one thing I forgot to point out is that I get really
> psychedelic colors, presumably because the maximum color depth is not
> correctly detected.
>
> On LTSP, adding the following option to lts.conf works well in a pinch:
>
> X_COLOR_DEPTH=24
>
> On a desktop based on the same chipset, adding the following option to
> the Screen section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf produces the same effect:
>
> DefaultDepth 24
>
> We're still investigating the cause of this failed maximum depth
> detection. Stay tuned.
>
>
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> xf86-video-amd: fails to autoconfigure
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/140051
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