XWindow server

[Jobst]

Does this mean thausend or million colours ?



On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:50:29 -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich
<daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
> Are you setting the depth in XF86Config-4 as 24 or 32? If one doesn't
> work, try the other.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:30:53 +0100, Jobst wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > the Problem with my iBook is a bit more difficult i think.
> > It's again the XFree86Config that doesn't work, but here the vertical
> > rate is written in the right way.
> > After the installation the xserver doesn't start, i have no GUI.
> > I've started Xautoconfig and i could start with startx. I've logged in
> > as "root" and I had only 256 Colours, so i changed this first to
> > millions. The System wants a restart, but after this i could not start
> > the xserver, i had to build a new XFree86Config. Then i tried to turn
> > the coulors just to thausends and now the system runs, i can restart
> > as often i want and this problem seems to be gone.
> > I tried again to turn the coulors to millions and had the same problem again.
> >
> > Jobst
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:37:38 -0500, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> So everyone can see the answer to my question to Jobst...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:45:16 +0100, Jobst wrote:
> >> > It was something about the vertical refresh rate, in the original
> >> > XFree86Config the numbers were wrong. (it must be 60-75 NOT 75-60).
> >> > This was on my iMac G3, but now i have again probs with the
> >> > XFRee86Config on my iBook. I just use it with OSX so i dont know the
> >> > error message, but this evening i'll try it again and will post the
> >> > error.
> >> >
> >> > Jobst
> >>
> >> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:30:14 -0500, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:03:51 +0100, Jobst wrote:
> >> > > OK, i found the problem, it was in the XFree86Config, line 57, and
> >> > > thank to Andrew i could save the changes and everything works.
> >> > >
> >> > > One thing, i've used the newest version i found on ydl.net, "orion"
> >> > >
> >> > > Thanks
> >> > > Jobst
> >> >
> >> > What was the change you had to make?
> >>
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