Parameters and options (WAS: Unable to start XWin - Core dump)

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Rob,

> I think it's a bad idea. Keep the syntax the unix way.

As far as I can see, from man X, the UNIX way is not to even have a -screen
parameter.  The -screen parameter came from the initial files that were
copied from the vfb server code.  You can run as many vfb servers as you'd
like for whatever purposes you would like (as they are not connected to a
physical display), so it doesn't make sense to have a config file, such as
XF86Config, for the vfb server.

I don't see any problems with changing the -screen parameters since the
original -screen parameter was copied verbatim from vfb, which was fine for
the original server (c.a. 2000-06-01) that always ran in fullscreen mode
using DirectDraw and therefore was always able to adjust the video mode to
that specified on the command line.  We can't follow that behavior now
because neither the GDI modes, windowed or fullscreen, nor the windowed
DirectDraw modes can change the display mode.

I think that having a value on a parameter that is ignored in 4 out of 6
cases tends to confuse new users :)

Harold