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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: XFree86 gives me a blank screen ! [SOLVED]
Message-ID: <1992Oct5.163504.26932@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Keywords: X Xfree86 install
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 16:35:04 GMT
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In article <BvnJMB.K5z@news.cso.uiuc.edu> venkat@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Venkat) writes:
> I ran xdm and upon checking the xdm-errors file saw error messages
> of the out-of-memory type. Apparently I had not bothered to check
> that the resolutions that I was setting in the Xconfig file would
> fit in the available memory !
>
> NOTE: Of the different resolutions that I had entered in the Xconfig
> file, only *one* required more memory than that availlable and yet
> *none* of the resolutions would work - would it be possible [in the
> next version, maybe] that XFree86 display atleast the possible
> resolutions rather than come crashing down for one teeny weeny fault
The reasoning behind this is obviously that the memory for the highest
possible resoloution must be allocated, since dynamicly changing the
resoloution via keyboard command is allowed. To do otherwise could easily
case a crash as a result of your using the ctl-alt-ketpad-plus/minus.
This could probably be alleviate by "disabling" broken resoloutions --
but this tends to get ugly fast.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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