On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 10:54:36 -0500 (EST), Ari Heitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was crying out from somewhere about: Re: xfree setup?
AFAIK, You could change the color depth. I don't know how one changes the resolution. It had some option for 8bit and 24 bit or something like it. It asked me the question when I did dselect at the very beginning of installation, so I presume you could do an apt-get install the version of xfree binary you want and set it as the new default. # it probably means that the color depth is compiled in the binary ? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Junichi Uekawa, a.k.a. dancer a member of the Dept. of Knowledge Engineering and Computer Science, Doshisha University. ... I pronounce Linux as Day-bee-enne aheitner> On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: aheitner> aheitner> > I recall X looking nicer under solaris, ie, it was running at a better aheitner> > resolution with more colors. Now, I'm new to both sparc linux and aheitner> > xfree, so I have no idea how to set this sort of stuff up.... Is it even aheitner> > possible to change the resolution? Right now I'm using the xsun24 aheitner> > server, which I guess is not common, but it is working decently. I've aheitner> > already looked around in /etc/X11, but couldn't find anything useful. aheitner> > aheitner> > -Aaron Solochek aheitner> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] aheitner> > aheitner> Um, it should be the same. AFAIK (at least for all Sun framebuffers I have aheitner> seen) there is _only one_ resolution and colordepth supported. So there aheitner> _is_ no XF86Config file, since there are no options (I also found this aheitner> weird on my first SPARC/Linux box). aheitner> aheitner> The resolution should be the same (prolly 1152x900, maybe more on newer aheitner> machines) as in Solaris; there should be no resolution change at all in aheitner> switching from the console to X. aheitner> aheitner> My various SPARCs w/cgsix's all seem fine in this respect -- I know aheitner> they are since they have the older fixed-frequency monitors that can only aheitner> do the one resolution the framebuffer supports. aheitner> aheitner> Do you have a specific example of "looking nicer"? Are you actually seeing aheitner> things dithering? Is the resolution measurably lower? (quick check: move aheitner> an xterm around and look at its coordinates...how big is the screen?) aheitner> aheitner> aheitner> aheitner> aheitner> aheitner> Cheers, aheitner> aheitner> aheitner> Ari Heitner aheitner> aheitner> aheitner> aheitner> -- aheitner> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] aheitner> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] aheitner> aheitner>
