Re: XFree86 4.2 minor woes

2002-05-15 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On May 14 at 11:16, JJ Behrens spoke: i've always started X with -bpp 24 in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers to get the correct depth for xdm. it's not taken from XF86Config, iirc. Hmm: # From XF86Config Section Screen DefaultDepth 16 # - has always worked for me. Am I

Re: XFree86 4.2 minor woes

2002-05-15 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On May 15 at 02:59, Aidan Skinner spoke: Yeah. I tried it with startx -- -depth 24, which fixed the 16 colours problem (thanks!). I had thought about that, but changing my XF86Config to *only* have 24bpp @ 1024x786 didn't seem to make a difference. I would have thought this would have

Re: XFree86 4.2 minor woes

2002-05-15 Thread Pete French
I had thought about that, but changing my XF86Config to *only* have 24bpp @ 1024x786 didn't seem to make a difference. I would have thought this would have meant it actually ran at 24bpp. ;) Interesting, because thts exactly what I do and it works for me. I never had a problem with colour

Re: XFree86 4.2

2002-03-05 Thread stan
probably missed some discussion on the topic. Anyway, what is going on with Xfree86 v4.2 ? I once had seen XFree86 4.2 on freshports.org but then it came back to 4.1 few days later... NetBSD has already 4.2 in -stable so why not FreeBSD ? The port was at 4.2.0 shortly before

Re: XFree86 4.2

2002-03-05 Thread Kevin Oberman
2002 04:03 am, Herve Quiroz wrote: I have not been member of this list until recently so I have probably missed some discussion on the topic. Anyway, what is going on with Xfree86 v4.2 ? I once had seen XFree86 4.2 on freshports.org but then it came back to 4.1 few days later

Re: XFree86 4.2

2002-03-05 Thread Brian T . Schellenberger
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 05:00 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote: Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:25:26 -0500 From: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] the 4.2 port appeared and disappeared from the tree, but is still available and works fine. (If you don't know what a meta-port is, look at

Re: XFree86 4.2

2002-03-05 Thread David W. Chapman Jr.
Must be a positive side to this, right? Otherwise you could just install all of it with a trivial shell loop over the various appropriate directories in the ports tree. Will fix things like stale dependencies on imake or xf86libs-4 -- David W. Chapman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raintree

Re: XFree86 4.2

2002-03-05 Thread Brian T . Schellenberger
, what is going on with Xfree86 v4.2 ? I once had seen XFree86 4.2 on freshports.org but then it came back to 4.1 few days later... NetBSD has already 4.2 in -stable so why not FreeBSD ? The port was at 4.2.0 shortly before the release of FreeBSD 4.5 and it was rolled back to 4.1.9