[17037] in Athena Bugs
Re: Case 148622: 8.3 doesn't like guru
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ted McCabe)
Mon Aug 9 15:38:53 1999
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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 15:38:19 -0400
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From: Ted McCabe <ted@MIT.EDU>
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I'm CC'ing this to bugs as it appears to be an issue for the release.
Sounds like the resolution needs to be reset with either ffbconfig or
afbconfig.
Which one depends on which kind of graphics card he has, which can be
determined with prtconf -F (the result should contain either afb or
ffb in it somewhere).
It needs to be run as root. 'ffbconfig -prconf' will show the info
and 'ffbconfig -res <resolution>' appear to be the relevant commands
(similarly for afbconfig). The resolution should be chosen from the
list given by the first command.
Hopefully that's all that's needed (I haven't tested it).
--Ted
At 8:44 AM -0400 8/9/99, hotline@MIT.EDU wrote:
>Case 148622 has been recently updated and currently stands as follows:
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>--- Entry: Thursday, Aug 05, 1999 1:53 PM -- Email Received --
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>Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 13:49:44 -0400
>To: hotline@MIT.EDU
>From: Christine Moulen <orbitee@MIT.EDU>
>Subject: 8.3 doesn't like guru
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>Barry came over this afternoon and reinstalled the Athena software to
>version 8.2.20. The screen resolution went back to normal. He left me with
>instructions to manually update to 8.3, which I just did, and I've got lower
>resolution again...
>The only other thing I did was to set PUBLIC to false and change root passwd.
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>Christine Moulen
>Library Systems Manager
>MIT Libraries, 14-0615
>617-253-0757, fax 617-253-8894
>orbitee@mit.edu
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>--- Entry: Monday, Aug 09, 1999 8:44 AM -- jjmorey ---
>--- Sent E-Mail (Entire Log) To: orbitee@mit.edu; Cc: ops
>Im forwarding this problem to the athena ops group.
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>hopefully they will have an answer for you
