On Don, 2003-04-03 at 11:28, Nicholas Helps wrote: > > Does fbset work properly with woody on a starmax 3000? I have just put debian > onto this machine and after > configuring the xserver during installation (800 x 600 with 16 bit colour) > got horrible colours when the desktop > environment started (it looked like it may 16 colours - ie not a bit depth of > 16, but 16 actual colours). I then > went back and used the dpkg reconfigure tool for xserver to change this to 8 > bit colour (256 colours) and got > something acceptable at 1024 x 768 res. However, I would like to be able to > change these settings without having > to go back and reconfigure every setting in the xserver (ie without using > dpkg reconfigure xserver xfree86). I > found a help page on a web site about debian (not THE debian www site) that > referred to fbset for setting frame > buffer variables. This seems to be the right tool to use.
No. X is configured in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, one way to do that is what you'd like to avoid. You can also edit the file manually, but be sure to read the comments debconf put in there. > It was not installed as part of the standard install, but apt-get did find it > on the distribution CD and managed to install it. I ran it and told it to set > the x and y > resolutions to "-yres 800 -xres 600" (a suggested resolution). The screen > went blank and I had to do a restart. It > does seem strange that it quotes yres as 800, since I always thought that > screen res would be (eg) 640 x 480, 800 > x 600, etc with the larger figure being the xres. I also tried it that way > round and the screen went blank again. If you did that from within X, then I think the behaviour is basically undefined. Otherwise, what framebuffer device are you using? (check /proc/fb) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
