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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 package

  1. Bug #188409
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 188409

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

It seems it's apparently a well known issue that fglrx doesn't support 16 bit color depth:

 http://odin.prohosting.com/wedge01/gentoo-radeon-faq.html#4_16bit

I guess as a workaround xserver could be configured to not try 16 bit when flgrx is loaded, however really the true fix is for AMD/ATI to add better support for 16 bpp.