Upgrading XFree86 to xorg

John McBride jmcbride at ccis.com
Fri Nov 12 05:31:39 UTC 2004


Teo Fonrouge wrote:
> John McBride wrote:
> 
>>Teo Fonrouge wrote:
>>
>>
>>sorry for ignoring the subject but i am curious about what kind of 
>>problems you are seeing. could you describe them more fully?
>>
> The trouble with xdosemu, is that when the client opens a xdosemu session on the
> server machine, it only shows a black screen instead of character's dos session.
> Besides, it complains with:
> 'ERROR: X: No graphics modes supported on this type of screen!'
> 
have you seen this?

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.msdos.general/2533

"If a VGA mode is not supported on your current X display, the graphics
screen will just remain black. Note that this does not mean that
xdosemu has crashed."

Perhaps you could compare the output of "xdpyinfo" or the X config files 
between the working and non-working servers.

---
John




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