Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 23:45:31 -0800 From: William Richard <wdr@tdl.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NCD X-terminal, FreeBSD and XDM ... Message-ID: <3853529B.8BF560E5@tdl.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912120230040.500-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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The Hermit Hacker wrote: > I picked up an NCD Xterminal to work off of, since my monitor was/is > slowly going...got XDM to work and can start up my Xsessions from my > FreeBSD box... > > Problems: color sucks... > > If I used startx on my console, I always added -- -bpp 16, to improve > things...how does one do similar under xdm? I can't find anything but the > man pages on this, and they don't *appear* to indicate anything I can do > as a runtime option ... I could be mistaken here (and by all means, correct me if I'm wrong), but I don't think the answer you're looking for is on the host machine. Remember that the X terminal is essentially a stripped-down computer running only an X server, and it is the X server that communicates with the video hardware. Thus any configuration you want to do to your X server (like specifying display bit depth) should be done through your X terminal. So try your X terminal documentation. If I'm totally off base with this one, I apologise for leading you astray. But I don't think it's XDM; by the time XDM hears from anything not on the local machine, it expects to be talking to an X server. And by the way: specifying options for the X server on the *local* machine (not a remote terminal or diskless workstation) could probably be done (though not very elegantly) through the Xservers file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm. Cheers, William Richard wdr@tdl.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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