Re: GLINT/Permedia video driver works in 3.2-beta

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Matthieu Herrb wrote:

> Dries Schellekens wrote (in a message from Tuesday 1)
>  > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
>  >
>  > >  > Xdm doesn't work. It tries to start X, but fails.
>  > >
>  > > This was in 8 bit depth ? it's a known issue with Xrender reserving too
>  > > many colors and preventing XPM images to be displayed.
>  > > Someone should write an XPM display code that takes advantage of
>  > > Xrender...
>  >
>  > Indeed this is in 8 bit depth. I just tried 16 and 24 bit depth, and they
>  > worked.
>  >
>  > Go back to console using Alt-Ctl-F1 doesn't work. Do I have to up option
>  >  WSDISPLAY_COMPAT_PCVT or some other wcons option to make this work?
>  >
>
> This is fixed in -current since last week. Recent snapshots should
> include this fix.

I'm using the X from the snapshot of 25/09. This seems to be the latest.

Do I need to kill getty or something of that kind? I think you said
something about that on some openbsd mailing  list.

If I type Alt-Ctrl-F1, nothing happens but a error is logged in
/var/log/authlog
init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/console, sleeping


Cheers,

Dries
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Dries Schellekens
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