[25318] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.2.25: /etc/athena/xwrapper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Nov 16 19:46:34 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Shamik Das <shamikd@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200311170042.hAH0gWkG016683@shiny-new-sun.mit.edu>
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On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 19:42, Shamik Das wrote:
> if i'm reading this correctly, xwrapper will use the hardware
> default if it can't get a display at 1152x900x76 at
> 24bpp. however, we are not using a sun monitor with our sun, and
> our vga monitor doesn't do 1152x900. i guess this isn't a
> "bug" per se, since it's really working as designed, but i
> thought it might be cool if it tried a vesa mode in addition,
> both for better robustness and so that usermode 24<->8 switching
> will work.
If you issue an m64config using a vesa mode, does it just work or does
it ask you to override? I rather suspect that your monitor can't talk
to the Sun effectively, and we can't distinguish between that case and a
monitor which can't handle the vesa mode.
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