Greetings, all. I'm running a stock Potato r3, and I'm having some difficulty getting X to cooperate. My computer uses the Intel i810 chipset on its video hardware, and I've downloaded the necessary modules and X server from Intel, and in general, things are working fine.
Intel's X server for this chipset does not currently support 32bpp, so I'm running at 24. This makes a number of applications slightly cranky: some of Netscape's icons don't display correctly, and acroread either crashes or displays the document incorrectly. (I've attempted to run acroread remotely, off a RedHat 6.2 box, and it exhibited the same behavior, so I'm pretty sure it's the display.) I don't want to run 16bpp on a regular basis, because my monitor doesn't handle that particular video mode as well---it displays, but it's not as crisp as 24/32 bpp modes. I'd like to run two X servers on this machine: one in 24bpp on vt7, for my normal stuff, and one in 16bpp mode on vt8 for those apps which can't handle 24bpp mode. (I'm not running [xgk]dm or any of the other display managers.) I've done this previously under RH6.2, so I know this is possible in theory. So. As a normal user, I tried `startx -- -bpp 24 :0', and this worked fine. After this, I switched back to a text console and did `startx -- -bpp 16 :1'. This brought up an X server on vt8, but all of the clients started in my .xsession appeared on display :0, not display :1. Since FVWM refuses to run on display twice, this second server terminates as soon as it gets through the interactive bits of my .xsession. What am I missing? How can I get these clients to use the correct display? Thanks, Richard
