[25874] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.3.8: xwrapper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Tue Jul 27 18:04:41 2004
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:04:26 -0400
Message-Id: <200407272204.i6RM4Qdk032325@anhedonia.mit.edu>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
To: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: "[25860] in Athena Bugs"
cc: bugs@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
> I don't know if the issue I mention here is an uncommon problem that
> affects specific machines, or is a general problem that will affect
> large groups of machines. I'll report it, to help spread awareness.
>
> This machine, hodge-podge, was recently reinstalled to 9.3.
> The installation process went well, except that at the end,
> the machine was running X in 8-bit mode.
asteroids, an Ultra 5 in the W92 test cluster recently reinstalled at
9.3, seemed to have the same problem.
> I haven't figured out the difference between "-file system" and
> "-file machine", but can get the results I want by running fbconfig
> twice, once with each "-file" option.
>
> So, for example, I corrected hodge-podge out of 8-bit mode and into
> 24-bit mode by running the two commands:
> m64config -file system -res 1152x900x76 -depth 24
> m64config -file machine -res 1152x900x76 -depth 24
"-file machine" updates the machine-specific OWconfig file in
/etc/openwin/server/etc; this is the default. "-file system" updates
the "global" OWconfig file in /usr/openwin/server/etc. xwrapper does
not specify this option, and so updates the machine-specific file.
When I tried "m64config -res 1152x900x76 -depth 24" interactively on
asteroids, it warned that it could not verify that it was a supported
resolution for the monitor, and asked for confirmation. Is this what
happened when you tried it on hodge-podge? Since xwrapper runs this
command with stdin redirected to /dev/null, the change would not be
confirmed, and m64config would revert the machine-specific file to the
default configuration, i.e. 8-bit mode. Your updating of the system
file would be a persistent change, though, overriding the default.
I will look into whether anything changed in 9.3 affecting these
machines' ability to run in 24-bit mode. (I do not know offhand if
asteroids ran in 24-bit mode previously).
Thanks for reporting this.
Bob
