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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to set the Color Depth in XFree86
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From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
Date: 6 Jun 1996 19:02:09 +0100
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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/>