On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, David John Nicholson wrote: >I don't insist on this depth at all, this is what happened to my >setup after the crash. As I said in my original message. Redhat >8.0 installed perfectly and xfree86 ran perfectly. It is completely and totally impossible for an X server crash to cause the X server to start up in a different color depth in the future. The X server starts up in the depth indicated by DefaultDepth in the config file. Unless you hand edit the config file to change the DefaultDepth, or override the depth with -depth on the commandline to startx, then you get the depth that you have configured the X server for. You can crash it 1000 times, and that is not going to change at all in any way. Upgrading the kernel wont change that either, and can NOT change that. >I upgraded th kernel from 2.4.18-14 to an atalon one 2.4.18-24 >after which I could not get X to work again. So I reinstalled >the system, reverting to the earlier kernel formatting the >partitions, and then everything was fine for quite a long time >until this happened again. I was advised by another member of >the list to include any error messages so here they are. I want >to know why x keeps on crashing. Is is a kernel bug which only >surfaces when you use a particular video card maybe? What is the >most stable card to use? I like Linux but X has always been a >pain in the arse to setup. It's a lot better now than it used to >be though. I have a feeling you're not providing us with all of the relevant details and information. One thing is certain though, is that your color depth is not randomly changing on it's own without some help. Why you're experiencing a crash, I have no idea, but nobody will be able to help you unless you provide more details, and post your X server log and config file on the web or ftp somewhere. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
