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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!jesus.serv.net!root From: jimbo <root@jesus.serv.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: How to set the Color Depth in XFree86 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 12:43:11 +0000 Organization: ServNet Internet Services Lines: 29 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960604123333.312A-100000@jesus.serv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: jesus.serv.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello again! I'm the same guy that had the (dumb) problem with Tar a couple days ago, or more specifically, I was using it incorrectly. Thanks to all who responded! This time, I'm having a problem setting my XFree86 color depth to 16bpp. In the man page, it says that it's a command-line option as follows: XFree86 -bpp 16 Well, I use "startx" to fire up my X-windows, and that command line option doesn't seem to work there. I also tried inserting that line in my .xinitrc file, which doesn't seem to work, either. I checked through the XF86Config file, and everything seems to be set up properly to *support* the higher video modes (I'm using a Mag Innovision 17" monitor and a Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM with 4 megs on it, everything appears to be configured properly, according to the hardware manuals.) So, my question would be this: In which file would I insert the -bpp command-line option to have X-Windows default to (or even RUN) 16bpp? Once again, any help you could offer would be appreciated. Please respond in E-Mail to: root@jesus. serv.net Thanks in advance! Jim Andrews