On 8/6/01 at 1:40 AM, Michel DŠnzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Duncan Sands wrote:
> > If I use more bpp then the screen image is
> > displaced to the right, and wraps around onto
> > the left of the screen. Having the left of a
> > window on the right of the screen and the
> > right of the window on the left of the screen
> > makes my head hurt... However, having only
> > 8bpp is a pain too. Can anyone suggest how I
> > can have more colours and less head pain?
>
> Help fix the bug. ;^)
I had similar problems on my 7600 w/. 15" Apple Multisync AV monitor
having gotten XFree86 4.03 / fbdev to work - the wrap (only about 1.5 cm
though) at what I thought was 8 bpp, and a really terrible pinkish hued
display at what I thought was 16 bpp.
This with kernel args in BootX of "video=controlfb:vmode:16,cmode:16".
Turns out (after reading some of the debian-x list) that changing the
"Default Depth" in the "Screen" section of the XF86Config-4 file from 16
to 15 fixes *both* the wrap problem and the colour problem. (So I've
now learned that bpp ‚ depth.)
However I'm still getting X crashing if it's left idle for a while (at
least that's what I think it's doing - I come back to find the logon
window looking at me) - this is even when setting the screensaver in
Gnome to only come on after a very long time and commenting out option
"DPMS" in the monitor section of the XF86Config-4 file. A much earlier
post on this list gives a workaround for this but seemed to me to apply
only to people using KDE or XDM. How can I stop this from happening?
thanks
Alan
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