[rescue] multihead X crash

Big Endian bigendian at mac.com
Thu Apr 25 15:00:28 CDT 2002


>>On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:57:02PM -0400, Big Endian wrote:
>>>  I've got three heads setup on an SS20 (SX,ZX,GX) running solaris8.  I
>>>  got it working so that it starts x on each screen, puts up the login
>>>  prompt and allows me to login.  However when I do login, X doesn't
>>>  seem to stay working as it refreshes all three screens, then drops
>>>  back to the dtlogin prompt.  What am I doing wrong here?
>>
>>I think the most likely scenario is whatever you're running in your Xsession
>>(likely a window manager) is either not starting or exiting immediately.
>
>Right, but why would this happen now, when it didn't happen with the 
>single head config?

Ok.  I moved my Xservers file back from /etc/dt/config/ to 
/usr/dt/config and removed the /etc/dt/config directory.  That solved 
the crash.  Now I have two 24bit cards (1SX, 1ZX) and one 8bit 
card(double wide GX)  The GX defaults to a 1 bit visual.  How do I 
set it to default to PseudoColor?

daniel
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