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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!pipex-sa.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.funet.fi!news.helsinki.fi!usenet From: gandalf <hanneliu@kruuna.helsinki.fi> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFree and default bpp? Date: 8 Mar 1996 15:54:31 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4hpl7n$jmn@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> References: <4hot1d$s46@myntti.helsinki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: vesuri.helsinki.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) X-URL: news:4hot1d$s46@myntti.helsinki.fi kjellman@cc.helsinki.fi (Janne P Kjellman) wrote: > 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 You have to pass '-bpp 16' or '-bpp 32' as an argument to the X-server. I do it by specifying 'serverargs="-bpp 16"' in the /usr/X11R6/bin/startx file.