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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: bpp - Setting bit depth from 8 to 16 or higher Date: 7 Sep 1996 08:43:48 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <50rck4$8r1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <323063D1.41C67EA6@killerbee.jsc.nasa.gov> <50qbun$s3@bofh.noc.best.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) 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. Another way is to add ``-bpp 16'' to the server line in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers (assuming you are using xdm). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)