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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Newbie questions Date: 27 Dec 1996 19:37:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5a18hd$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <59hhmc$k0n@nntp1.best.com> <59hps5$olt@nntp.stanford.edu> <32BCF6AD.3F02@www.play-hookey.com> <59sv10$26@nntp1.best.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33198 burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley) wrote: > I've tried startx -bpp 32, startx -bpp 16, initx -bpp 16, and initx > -bpp 32. Every time X starts in 1280X1024 (which is only defined in > the 8 bit section of /etc/XF86Config). There's an error somewhere in the xinit program. I've also observed this behaviour. If you're using a .xserverrc file (as described in the xinit man page), you should get it going. > I've also started X with xdm by adding the following line to my /etc/ttys file: > > tty4 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > > from page 99 of The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey. Unfortunately, Greg got this one wrong. :-( This form of starting xdm has been long since depreciated. The correct way is to set your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers e.g. to: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 :0 vt04 -bpp 16 This way, you will force the Xserver to start up on VT4, as opposed to the first free one it could locate, so it won't collide with the init-spawned gettys. And, you can also see how to add Xserver flags for your xdm setup. If you're using the above, you could start xdm without any arguments (i.e., in daemon mode) from /etc/rc.local. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)