Re: XF86Setup
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, moron wrote:
> I've run XF86Setup a dozen times in the last day or two, but I wasn't aware
> of being invited to do anything I would call 'configuring the order of
> modes'. Certainly, nobody asked me if if I wanted virtual desktop. But
> you've got three desktop screens running, which gives me hope.
>
> A fundamental problem I seem to have is that when I run startx it only looks
> at the VGA16 section and only at the 'depth 4' subsection. (That's the only
> subsection XF86Setup writes in XF86Config, and when I added an 8-bit
> subsection with a different screen size it was ignored.) If I comment it
You get the first one that it finds. To get a different one, you have to
ask by color depth:
startx -- -bpp 32
to start a second xserver (if you have lots of memory):
startx -- -bpp 8 :1
> out, it returns an error and refuses to start. I have an API Mach64 card
I have an ATI Mach64 also. The mach64 xserver works fine for me.
...RickM...
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