Re: startx not passing options to server?
"Eric G. Miller" wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:04:37AM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> > I recently downgraded from XFree 4 to 3.3.6 (the one in Potato). I also
> > made sure to downgrade xbase-clients and xserver-svga (the server I'm
> > using). Then, I recreated my XF86Config file.
> >
> > I have my XF86Config file set up so that there is only one resolution
> > choice for each color depth. That way, I can simply use the '-bpp'
> > option to force X to use a particular resolution as well as color
> > depth. This all worked fine under version 4.
> >
> > But now, when I do
> >
> > startx -- -bpp <depth>
> >
> > it does not choose the desired color depth and resolution. It always
> > goes to the default depth that I specify in XF86Config. The error
> > output shows no sign that it tried and rejected a particular depth or
> > resolution.
> >
> > However,
> >
> > X -bpp <depth>
> >
> > chooses the color depth and resolution just fine, as the error output
> > shows me.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before? Where should I start looking for a handle
> > on this problem? It might be because of the "downgrade"; I really don't
> > know.
>
> man XFree86:
>
> ...
>
> -bpp n No longer supported. Use -depth to set the color
> depth, and use -fbbpp if you really need to force
> a non-default framebuffer (hardware) pixel format.
>
> -depth n
> Sets the default color depth. Legal values are 8,
> 15, 16, and 24. Not all servers support all val
> ues.
>
Hmmm. This may not address my problem directly, but it may have set me
on the right path. When I would do xinit, both -bpp and -depth would
work.
However, I noticed that I didn't have this manpage, which led me to the
discovery that I never downgraded xserver-common (which has the
manpage).
The manpage for the Potato version does give -bpp as a valid option now.
I'm going to try startx again when I get the chance.
Thanks for the input.
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