On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Peter Naulls wrote:

> 
> These are questions I've had for a while, thought it was time I got 
> someone to answer them :)
> 
> I keep getting a lot of "Last message repeated..." errors.  What are these
> caused by, and better yet, how do I cure them?

rather than having 100 copys of a particulay message you get one copy and a
message saying "Last Message repeated..." as for curing them... most of them
will be kernel debugging messages ;-)

> I've set up xdm, which is all well and good, but I get "getty is repeating
> too quickly on tty09, sleeping".  How do I stop these?

no idea ;-) (never used xdm)

> No doubt the answer to this is blantantly obvious, I just haven't seen the
> answer anywhere - how do I boot X in 32k colours?  And is there a way to 
> increase the number of palette entries so applications don't keep running
> out of colours?

try /usr/local/bin/setdisplay - it's not actually documented any where tho
;-) note that you must specify -d /dev/vidcvideo0 other wise it's a bit
wierd. use something like:

/usr/local/bin/setdisplay -x 1280 -y 1024 -m /etc/monitor.conf 
			-d /dev/vidcvideo0 -c 16

or setdisplay -h

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