[25315] in Athena Bugs
Re: 8-bit mode on Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri Nov 14 15:24:15 2003
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:24:18 -0500
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Well, that mostly works. Except that you end up with a tty login,
because X fails to start because there's no modeline for 8 bit depth.
So you also need to add a second Display subsection to Screen0 in
XF86config-4 like so:
----------------------snip---------------------------------
--- XF86Config-4.pre 2003-11-14 15:11:29.000000000 -0500
+++ XF86Config-4 2003-11-14 15:15:32.000000000 -0500
@@ -75,4 +75,8 @@
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
+ Subsection "Display"
+ Depth 8
+ Modes "1280x1024"
+ EndSubSection
EndSection
----------------------snip---------------------------------
I tested that, and combined with the change to xwrapper, it works fine.
-Jon
At 1:14 PM -0500 11/14/03, Greg Hudson wrote:
>If you could do me a favor: edit /etc/athena/xwrapper and on line 10,
>change "-bpp 8" to "-depth 8". See if that fixes the 8-bit mode
>option. If it does, I can put that into the release. (It should change
>the default depth, not the supported depths, but that should be good
>enough.)
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