On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 06:41, Michael Peddemors wrote: > Finally gave up and put myself on another mailing list.. My weakest area > in Linux has always been X .. This one has me stumped.. > Running a Thin Client set up.. > The Clients load a common kernel with frambuffer support and devfs, > (Debian minimal install) that calls the server via the standard X -query > <servername> and the server is running Slackware 8.0 without devfs > > Now when the client boots up, the logfiles show that the Framebufffer > device comes up in TRUECOLOR, and all default depths are specified as > 16..
Which is doubly useless. ;) The console only has 16 colors anyway, and the X server depth is independent from it. > But the xdm comes up in 8 bit, and ugly 8 bit to boot. Log in, and > when I get X it is also in 8 bit. So have you set a depth different from 8 in the XF86Config Section "Screen"? -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
