Date: 15 May 2002 11:24:42 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2 minor woes Message-ID: <1021427686.9773.0.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20020514161829.A2846@bsag.ch> References: <20020513203338.C9610@velvet.net> <20020514141952.A14393@bsag.ch> <1021384063.8572.4.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> <20020514161829.A2846@bsag.ch>
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On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 23:48, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > It probably depends on the config tool. I'm also not sure whether > the xf86cfg takes it's default values of the XF86Config of 3.3.6. > I just remember frequently setting the DefaultDepth by hand. > > I sometimes failed to create a working config file from scratch with > the new xf86cfg. Then I copied one from another box to start with or > ran the old xf86config. xf86cfg doesn't specify a colour depth. It seems the X server picks a default (where there is no 'DefaultDepth' directive) which makes xdm non-functional. This seems a little silly to me :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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