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
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