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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: bpp - Setting bit depth from 8 to 16 or higher
Date: 6 Sep 1996 16:26:15 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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Message-ID: <50qbun$s3@bofh.noc.best.net>
References: <323063D1.41C67EA6@killerbee.jsc.nasa.gov>
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Cc: morrison@killerbee.jsc.nasa.gov
In article <323063D1.41C67EA6@killerbee.jsc.nasa.gov>,
John A. Morrison <morrison@killerbee.jsc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Question: How do I change the default bit depth from 8 to 16 (running
> a 1280 x 1024 display).
The way i did it was to remove the SubSections for 8bpp and 32bpp from
my /etc/XF86Config file. I don't know if there's a better way, though.
rone
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