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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!vyzynz!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!adam.kaist.ac.kr!stair From: stair@adam.kaist.ac.kr (Minsung Kim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XFree and default bpp? Date: 9 Mar 1996 10:18:27 GMT Organization: Korea Research Environment Open Network (KREONet) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4hrltj$6tt@news.kreonet.re.kr> References: <4hpl7n$jmn@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> NNTP-Posting-Host: adam.kaist.ac.kr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] gandalf (hanneliu@kruuna.helsinki.fi) wrote: : 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. Or if you're running xdm, you can specify that switch in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers file, like the followings: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 -- Stair =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Minsung Kim <stair@adam.kaist.ac.kr> Undergraduate CS Dept., KAIST