Suppressing automatic modes

Kacper Wysocki kacperw at online.no
Thu Aug 31 03:05:59 PDT 2006


On 8/31/06, Kacper Wysocki <kacperw at online.no> wrote:
> On 8/31/06, Perry Hutchison <perryh at pluto.rain.com> wrote:
> > Adding a Modes line made no difference.  The resulting behavior
> > is the same as before, and the logfile is identical except for
> > the date stamp.
> [snip man]
> That's because your Xorg defaults to 16bpp mode since you haven't
> provided the DefaultDepth parameter, but you've only provided a Modes
> line for 24bpp mode

It's prolly just me, but that sentence seems really convoluted. What I
meant was:
Add a Modes line to the Depth subsection for the depth you're running
(16bpp). That way Xorg will know what resolution you want it to start
with.

 -K



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