Re: xfree setup?
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 10:54:36 -0500 (EST), Ari Heitner <aheitner@andrew.cmu.edu> 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 ?
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aheitner> On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:
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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> > leko@cmu.edu
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).
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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.
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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.
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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?)
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aheitner> Cheers,
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aheitner> Ari Heitner
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