[99069] in RedHat Linux List
Re: BS in X and other stories..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Nugent)
Thu Nov 12 02:43:30 1998
To: Linux User <linuxuser@linuxtest.fellows.denison.edu>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: message-id <Pine.LNX.3.96.981112021117.8283A-100000@linuxtest.fellows.denison.edu>
of Thu, Nov 12 02:15:12 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 17:55:29 +1000
From: Tony Nugent <Tony.Nugent@usq.edu.au>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
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On Thu Nov 12 1998 at 02:15, Linux User wrote:
> -Has anybody else had problems with the backspace in X only working in the
> term windows?
Read the keyboard howto (and other associated howtos) and go to
www.redhat.com/support and follow your nose from the FAQs to some excellent
sites that have many pages devoted to this topic.
> -I've tried 'startx -bpp 16' but nothing really happens, no error msg and
> it still goes into 8bpp mode.
You'll need to tweak your /etc/X11/XF86Config file to get it happening.
(Are you sure there aren't a whole bunch of rejected modelines in the
output of the server when it starts up?)
> I'm, using the XFcom_SiS server from SUSE.
All the XF86-based drivers use /etc/X11/XF86Config as the config file.
Good luck.
Cheers
Tony
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