Hi! After a power outage a few hours ago, I fsck´ed (no problems found), and tried to re-startx. X and fvwm95 came up, but with a somewhat spooky colormap, like some kind of green (eg the background, which was simply grey) was missing.
I´ve re-ran XF86Setup, apt-get remove´d + install´ed fvwm95 + -icons, no change. I´ve compared the whole /etc/X11, /usr/lib/X11 and /usr/X11R6 to the last backup, no differences found. As a last resort I´ve tried switching from 1280x1024x8bpp to 1152x864x16bpp and, et voila, everythings back to normal, obviously except resolution and color-depth :( I actually like 1280x1024 because that way I don´t have to resize all and every remote X-session, so I´m quite at a loss here. Any ideas/hints/FMs to go read? The card is a Matrox Mystique/2MB on a potato (except the 2.0.38 kernel) system. OT: Have I got the math right ;-? 1280x1024x8bpp = 1280*1024*8 bits memory requirements eg 1280*1024*8/8 bytes? IOW ~1.3 MB whereas 1152x864x16bpp ~1.9 MB? Because that would mean I´m now using more mem on the gfx-card than before so I can´t quite believe to have simply smoked the RAM... TIA, &rw -- / Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax x533 \ \ KPNQwest/AT tech staff | Diefenbachg. 35 A-1150 Wien /
