[25897] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.3.8: xwrapper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Mon Aug 2 16:27:37 2004
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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cc: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>
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On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 20:40, Greg Hudson wrote:
> It's possible that the KVM switch does not pass through the monitor
> capability information.
Yes, that seems to be the case.
> Sometimes these problems crop up around updates because auto-updates can
> cause the machine to reboot while the monitor is off. (Or at least,
> that's been my diagnosis in the past.)
Based on my testing on asteroids, it could well be that the problem
is much more noticeable in 9.3, for some reason; when it comes up
in 8-bit, the 9.2 screen looks reasonable, but the 9.3 screen looks
fairly horrible. Compare these two screen dumps:
http://mit.edu/rbasch/Public/92screen.png
http://mit.edu/rbasch/Public/93screen.png
If the inability to detect the monitor's supported resolutions is
indeed the biggest culprit here, perhaps we should just change
xwrapper to be smarter about setting the depth in that case.
Bob
