[1760] in Release_7.7_team
Re: clarification on forcing 24-bit on Ultra 10s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Apr 15 20:15:04 1999
To: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU, f_l-mtg@nemesis.MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:29:36 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:14:46 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
I'm afraid it's worse than that.
"Xsun -dev /dev/fb defdepth 24" is not a command that you run to tweak
some configuration thing like afbconfig or ffbconfig. It's how you
start the X server (and there are a pile of other options, too).
So you have to tweak /etc/athena/login/config to add "-dev /dev/fb
defdepth 24" to the X startup options. But on a public machine, that
change will get reverted at the next reactivate or reboot. (On a
private machine, at the next update.)
It may be that afbconfig -deflinear is an easier command to recommend,
even if it's not as correct.
