[1769] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Ultras and 24-bit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Apr 28 16:06:33 1999
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:06:20 -0400
Message-Id: <199904282006.QAA24885@small-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1768] in Release_7.7_team"
Wow, it's worse than I thought. I wrote:
> if you boot my Ultra 5 and it is configured to 24-bit mode,
That was, specifically, at 1152x900x66 at depth 24.
If you boot my Ultra 5 and it is configured to 1152x900x66 at depth 8,
the same thing applies: after you start the X server a few times, the
machine goes comatose. So the problem seems to be more dependent on
the resolution than the bit depth. I will try again at 1024x768,
although I don't think we want to run cluster machines at such a low
resolution.
In other news, contrary to my expectations, starting the X server with
-dev /dev/fb defdepth {8,24} does appear to be an adequate way of
specifying 8- or 24-bit mode, assuming you are at a resolution which
can handle both. But that doesn't really solve any of our problems;
it just makes it slightly easier to write the X wrapper script once we
have 24-bit support (or 1152x900 support) working.
