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From: Paul Newhouse <pimin@diac.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: bpp - Setting bit depth from 8 to 16 or higher
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 22:49:24 -0700
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J Wunsch wrote:
> rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) wrote:
>
>>> ... How do I change the default bit depth from 8 to 16 ...
>> 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.
Kind of annoying to switch back and forth tho.
> Another way is to add ``-bpp 16'' to the server line in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers (assuming you are using xdm).
xinit -- -bpp 32
works well for me (OK! I don't know why you'd want to switch back and
forth)
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
If you don't have source code it's firmware.
Never trust software with a version number ending in ".0".
-Dave Tweeten
later,
pimin