Subject: Re: More questions on Xpmac.special
From: MAM VAN STEENSEL (mvanstee@baserv.uci.kun.nl)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 09:07:04 MDT
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On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Michael Long wrote:
> "M.A.M. van Steensel" wrote:
>
> > > >
> > > What do you mean by passing the server to startx? Should I disable
> > > XF86_FBDev by trashing it? Or change my init script to 5 instead of 3?
> > > I'm using the most recent stable kernel from Paul's tree (with some USB
> > > hangs), 2.2.15p19. This kernel has Ben's patches from pre14 in it too.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > You don't have to thrash XF86_FBDev.
> > >From ye olde man pages
> >
> > SYNOPSIS
> > startx [ [ client ] options ... ] [ -- [ server ] options
> > ... ]
> >
> > Check if there's something like an .xserverrc in you home dir or a
> > <XRoot>/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc where XRoot is the root of the X11 tree.
> >
> > If there's a pointer to XF86_FBDev there then you should try and startx
> > explicitly using the Xpmac server. If there isn't you should log the output of
> > the startx command and send it to the list - so we can see what the server says.
> > (like, startx 2>&1 >x-log). You can also just start X by typing "X" and see what
> > happens.
> > For the FB_Dev to work properly you should upgrade X to 4.0.
> >
> > The most recent kernel is 2.2.15pre20, by the way, ad gets rid of most USB
> > probs.
> >
> > Maurice
>
> After literally weeks of investigation and prbing of this mailing list, I fianlly
> have 24-bit colr depth on my G4 Sawtooth. Thanks to Maurice and others. I
> resolved the problem by adding and append to my yaboot.conf file where I entered my
> video mode and color mode. Now if I can just depp Gnome from crashing........
>
>
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