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From: Trev Roydhouse <Trev.Roydhouse@f401.n711.z3.fidonet.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 96 23:52:00 +1000
Subject: Re: How to set the Color Depth in XFree86
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 > 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 

Try startx -- -bpp 16 

TREV.