Black Screen - 2

Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Mon Jul 10 06:42:00 GMT 2000


> > Do you mean it turn off your monitor?
> 
> Exactly.

This because you are using 256, I think

> 
> > Are you using one of those LCD flat-panel display?
> 
> No.
> 
> 
> >BTW:  1200x768x256 <---is wrong.  There is 256 pixeldepth?
> >How about 1200x768x8
> 
> 1200x768x256: 256 colors, I really don't know what pixeldepth to use
> beacuase I don't know what the meaning of pixeldepth is (but thi 
> is another
> problem, I think)

use

First try only 
xwin :0 

This starts with default.

you can also try 

xwin -srceen 8 1204x768x8 &

You can get help about pixeldepth etc using command

xwin -help

> 
> Should the server work wichever the desktop Windows resolution is ?

At the moment NO.  It might be in the next release.

Suhaib

> Many Thanks againg, Suhaib.
> federico
> 


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