[ale] Weird X question

[Cor van Dijk]

Hi Ken,
Whenever I had problems like that, it turned out that I had the wrong driver
for my videocard.
Hope this helps. Cor van Dijk


Ken Nagorski wrote:

> Hey... Check this out!
>
> I have this 233intel with 32megs and a 4meg S3 right. Someone gave it to me
> and I thought well I put slackware 8 on it ( like every other linux box I
> have )
>
> Anyway. I set it up and everything is fine except no matter what X will not
> change from 64x480... I know it is reading the XF86Config cause if I put
> garbage in there is crashes it. I have the "Modes" and the "DefaultDepth"
> option set just like my other box.
>
> Anyone know much about X? I don't think I have ever seen such weirdness with
> the configs. I thought that maybe the box was low on ram and X decided to
> ignore my defaults however this is not true. I know this cause I set the
> display to 8bits and the resolution to 1024x768, I should have been able to
> do that no problem.
>
> If I pass the option "startx -- -depth 24" I can see that it is starting in
> 24bit color cause I see it in the log.
>
> I'm stumped!
> Ken
>
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