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From: ernie@eis.net.au (Ernie Elu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to set the Color Depth in XFree86
Date: 4 Jun 1996 22:44:37 GMT
Organization: eis.net - Brisbane - Australia
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jimbo (root@jesus.serv.net) wrote:
: 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
:
edit startx which is just a script, and set the serverargs to
serverargs="-bpp 16" works like a charm for me.
-Ernie.
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Ernie Elu - ernie@eis.net.au - Brisbane - Australia
"I ping, therefore I am."
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