Colour depth was 16 in all cases showing slash. I do not use 24 on older
Intel as it is quite often on the buggy side. Same for SiS as 24 is
completely b0rken at present in the X driver (even for 16 I have to use
sisfb).
I can try rerunning this tonight using different depths.
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 18:36 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OK, so let's look at this issue again:
>
> Gerard Monsoif wrote:
> > [...] and this appears only in the machine that is running inside of Vmware
> > at work [...]
>
> with what color depth?
>
> Martin Guy wrote:
> > Same here, using nv X server on nVidia RIVA-TNT with 1680x1050 screen
> > resolution, but the same effect appears when running it in 1024x768 or
> > 800x600, all with bit depth 16.
> [...]
> > Back at the origila 1650x1050, at bit depth 24 the splash image
> > appears correctly, while at bit depth 8 it comes out flipped upside
> > down (attached).
>
> The splash was (and now is too after upstream switched to bmp)
> a 24-bit bmp. And that's not changeable in the squeeze timeframe. (oosplash
> can only handle 24bit bmps)
>
> But you can try whether the new splash in 3.2.1 (though also being 24bit) bas
> been converted better so that it doesn't appear anymore (hope doesn't stop...
>
> In any case, if still persisting - and as the bug correctly is classified
> as "minor" - this probably will remain for some time (unless you switch to
> 24bits on your resolution).
>
> Grüße/Regards,
>
> René
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