Re: FreeBSD issues

i figured it out. finally...
changed the color bit rate. to the highest - 32 bits,
commenting out the rest in the conf file...  


--- "Joshua L. McDowell" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Are you trying to X as Root?  If so try as a regular
> user, I know it's 
> not supposed to work that way.  Yet if I X as root
> then I get a very 
> strange colorless effect.  Although mine is so bad
> that I can't see 
> anything.
> 
> Joshua
> http://geocities.com/joshmia2001/
> 
> Douga Shmiffizeck wrote:
> 
> >hi all,
> >i just installed X for 6th time on a freeBSD 4.6.
> did
> >different installs - from the ports nad from
> sources i
> >got from x.org and other mirrors. i haven't used X
> >before but i've been using the command line for
> years
> >now. i poked around and online but so far no big
> help.
> >the issues are:
> >1. no matter what environment i pick - gnome or
> >sawfish - there isn't any colors. i reedited the
> >server conf file gazillian times - same result - no
> >colors which is the reason netscape doesn't show
> any
> >images i guess...
> >2. what is most annoying is that every time i open
> a
> >menu on the window menager and sellect something
> the
> >menu stays open - doesn't close up. and if i move a
> >window i get this onion skin effect all over the
> >screen. 
> >3. i also suspect that if i select genome-session
> in
> >my .xinitrc file i get gnome and sawfish and who
> knows
> >what else runnung.
> >i don't really have a lot of time to sit for the
> next
> >week and go through all the files and figure out
> stuff
> >myself.
> >i was hoping to get some information how to solve
> the
> >above issues here...  onece and for all...
> >
> >thanks.
> >
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