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From: kjellman@cc.helsinki.fi (Janne P Kjellman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: XFree and default bpp?
Date: 8 Mar 1996 11:01:33 +0200
Organization: University of Helsinki
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	I'm running XFree 3.12 and FreeBSD 2.1.0 with Diamond Stealth64
	Video VRAM 2MB card, but all I got is 8 lousy bytes per pixel
	on screen. 

	How to change this default behaviour? I tried to comment out
	8-bit videomodes, but after that it wouldn't start at all.

+janne