On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > I recall X looking nicer under solaris, ie, it was running at a better > resolution with more colors. Now, I'm new to both sparc linux and > xfree, so I have no idea how to set this sort of stuff up.... Is it even > possible to change the resolution? Right now I'm using the xsun24 > server, which I guess is not common, but it is working decently. I've > already looked around in /etc/X11, but couldn't find anything useful. > > -Aaron Solochek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Um, it should be the same. AFAIK (at least for all Sun framebuffers I have seen) there is _only one_ resolution and colordepth supported. So there _is_ no XF86Config file, since there are no options (I also found this weird on my first SPARC/Linux box).
The resolution should be the same (prolly 1152x900, maybe more on newer machines) as in Solaris; there should be no resolution change at all in switching from the console to X. My various SPARCs w/cgsix's all seem fine in this respect -- I know they are since they have the older fixed-frequency monitors that can only do the one resolution the framebuffer supports. Do you have a specific example of "looking nicer"? Are you actually seeing things dithering? Is the resolution measurably lower? (quick check: move an xterm around and look at its coordinates...how big is the screen?) Cheers, Ari Heitner
