Subject: Re: Newbie woes again... Part 2
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 21:30:19 MST
Jim,
Do you see mouse trails on your PB at 24bpp?
> Hi - With the newer versions of the FBDev Xserver, there is a problem with
> setting depth to 32. My understanding is that this depth is disabled for
> some reason. The result of using 32 is exactly what you saw in the output
> of startx (not to say that couldn't be caused by other issues). The fix in
> my case (using 3.3.6 on a PowerBook) was to stick with depths of 8, 15, or 24.
> To make this change manually, find Section "Screen" in the XF86Config file.
> There should be Subsection "Display" entries that include a Depth field. If
> there is a DefaultColorDepth entry in the Screen section, make sure it is
> set to something other than 16 or 32.
>
> Jim
>
> BondTrails@aol.com's bits of Fri, 25 Feb 2000 translated to:
>
> >thanks for the help, I will see if it does anything.
> >Just for some background info, I am running XFree86 version 3.3.5 and have
> >kernel 2.2.14. Everything was working fine until i accidently unplugged my
> >computer. When I restarted is where everything went ker-plunk! Perhaps there
> >is a file I need to set or something like that?
> >
> >Bondster!
> >
> >
>
>
Regards,
Dan
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