From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 15 2: 5:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.bsag.ch (ns.bsag.ch [62.2.201.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 522E237B400 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 02:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.bsag.ch (root@localhost) by ns.bsag.ch with ESMTP id g4F97wm12242 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 11:07:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ns.bsag.ch (bs13.bsag.ch [192.168.1.13]) by gw.bsag.ch with ESMTP id g4F97wU12238 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 11:07:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bsag.ch (bs82 [192.168.1.82]) by ns.bsag.ch (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id g4F95L116237 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 11:05:21 +0200 Received: (from hpr@localhost) by bsag.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4F95Lj10812 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 15 May 2002 11:05:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 11:05:21 +0200 From: Hanspeter Roth To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2 minor woes Message-ID: <20020515110521.A10788@bsag.ch> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1021384063.8572.4.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> <20020514111545.C13159@alicia.nttmcl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020514111545.C13159@alicia.nttmcl.com>; from jj@nttmcl.com on Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:16:05AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On May 14 at 11:16, JJ Behrens spoke: > > i've always started X with -bpp 24 in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers to > > get the correct depth for xdm. it's not taken from XF86Config, iirc. > > Hmm: > > # From XF86Config > Section "Screen" > DefaultDepth 16 # <----- > > has always worked for me. Am I missing something? The DefaultDepth of the config file is considered when you call startx or XFree86 without any color depth option. But if XFree86 is called via the display manager it might supply it's own depth option (`ps|grep X`). -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message