From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 18:11:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A68716A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 18:11:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 964EE43D39 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 18:11:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j24IBiPU024457; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:11:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j24IBgqH049728; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:11:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j24IBf2S049727; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:11:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:11:41 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Chris Shenton Message-ID: <20050304181141.GC49620@thought.org> References: <20050304085526.GA88144@thought.org> <86zmxj5ont.fsf@Thanatos.shenton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86zmxj5ont.fsf@Thanatos.shenton.org> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: any ideas why these xorg hassles??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:11:48 -0000 On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:03:34PM -0500, Chris Shenton wrote: > Gary Kline writes: > > > Another couple things. With XFree, I set the DefaultDepth' > > to 8; now, on both computers it is maxed out at 16. If I > > do set the default depth to 8, xdm fails. (It "tries" to' > > initialize, then something clicks/resets, the screen > > flashes grey for an instant; repeats infinitely.) > > I'm on 5.4-PRERELEASE#15 built last evening, running Xorg-6.8.1, and > noticed the same click-crash-burn-repeat when I dropped from 24 or 16 > to 8 bits. No idea why, I was trying to be conservative to test > something else. Was fine when I set it back to 16 or 24. AHHH. Samw symptons, different day. I first used startx to get my ye-ancient twm window manager, and startx works at 8 bits. But the screen still shimmies/quivers or whatever. But only if I use cc to build a large port or if I mess around with some GUI app. gary PS: If XFree is to "staid" or slow-to-change, xorg is tearing exactly the other way. My $0.02 worth. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix