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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.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!peer.news.xara.net!xara.net!SoNet!rmplc!yama.mcc.ac.uk!zippy.dct.ac.uk!str-ccsun!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to set the Color Depth in XFree86 Message-ID: <4p76f1$q6@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark) Date: 6 Jun 1996 19:02:09 +0100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960604123333.312A-100000@jesus.serv.net> Organization: University of Strathclyde NNTP-Posting-Host: vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk Lines: 13 jimbo <root@jesus.serv.net> wrote: > >This time, I'm having a problem setting my XFree86 color depth to 16bpp. You were right to look in the XF86Config file - in it you should find a section called "Screen", within which will be a field named "Depth". Change this to the required screen depth, e.g. "Depth 16" will give you a 16 bit screen. -- Neil Clark Transparent Telepresence Group <http://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk/>