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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XFree & Diamond Stealth
Date: 29 Oct 1995 18:33:00 +0100
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden.
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Fang-Cheng Chang <fang@apollo11.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>I have FreeBSD 2.0.5 and X11R6 (XFree) and a Diamond Stealth
>DRAM 64 PCI. I specified the color depth to be 8 bits
>in the XF86Config file. But when XF86_S3 is run, it uses only
>6 bits per RGB pixel (X -probeonly). How come?
This ain't the color depth.
Depending on whether your RAMDAC is supported in 8-bit mode, try
Option "dac_8_bit"
in the "Device" section in your XF86Config file.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)