In message <cfr2pv$qqn$2@colwyn.zhadum.de>, Matthias Scheler writes:
>In article <20040816033314.D57341AE76@berkshire.research.att.com>,
>	"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com> writes:
>> I'm running 2.0 beta (including XFree86 4.4.0), and I sometimes get a 
>> string of error messages like this:
>> 
>> XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmget() failed, size = 790528, errno = 12
>[...]
>> Do I need to change SHMMAXPGS?  I'm using the default value.
>
>What screen resolution (width, height and depth) do you use?

I'm using 1400x1050x16, the resolution I've been using for 3 years.  
(This is a Thinkpad T21 with a 1400x1050 screen.)

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb