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.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Gianelloni
> [mailto:wolf31o2-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 2:27 PM
> To: gentoo-catalyst-cnFmAm88PdgLnqt3yJz4RQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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