From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 14 18:55: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35AE637B403 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 18:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4F1sgBh023607 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 11:24:45 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2 minor woes From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 15 May 2002 11:24:42 +0930 Message-Id: <1021427686.9773.0.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5 required=5 X-Spam-Level: (-5) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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