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From: shadows@broken.whitefang.com (ShadowS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: bpp - Setting bit depth from 8 to 16 or higher
Date: 8 Sep 1996 13:23:14 GMT
Organization: Gulfnet Kuwait
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On 6 Sep 1996 16:26:15 -0700, Ron Echeverri <rone@bofh.noc.best.net> wrote:
>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
That works but you can do xinit -- -bpp 16 or xinit -- -bpp 32 it
basically sends the arguments to the X server. I usualy sit in 8 bpp at
1024x1200
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