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From: tcobbs@sgi.com (Travis Cobbs)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: SGI DOOM: How to change default visual? [was ...released for Irix v5.2]
Date: 8 Aug 1994 20:25:20 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Message-ID: <3264bg$49b@enet1-globe.csd.sgi.com>
References: <Ctpv81.MKz@odin.corp.sgi.com> <Cu2sFI.4ws@news.cis.umn.edu> <31uchl$bm5@enet1-globe.csd.sgi.com> <31ulmj$2gf@goth.engr.sgi.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: schooner.csd.sgi.com
In article <31ulmj$2gf@goth.engr.sgi.com>,
Kevin Luster <kluster@goth.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>In article <31uchl$bm5@enet1-globe.csd.sgi.com>,
>Travis Cobbs <tcobbs@sgi.com> wrote:
>>In article <Cu2sFI.4ws@news.cis.umn.edu>,
>>Alex Korobka <korobka@prometheus.chem.umn.edu> wrote:
>>>Just one question - How to change default visual?
(good suggestions deleted)
>So when I want to start up in 8 bit mode I su and then do a
>cp /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers.8 /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers and then reboot
>my machine (ick!)
You don't have to reboot. All you have to do is restart X. The Vulcan Death
Grip does this (<Ctrl><Shift><F12><KeyPad />, all pressed at once). This is
significantly faster than rebooting the machine, and can be done (I think) from
the login screen.
--
Travis Cobbs
tcobbs@schooner.csd.sgi.com Mountain View, CA
Silicon Graphics, Inc. phone: 415 390-2107