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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!sn.no!online.no!not-for-mail From: ragnar@online.no (Ragnar Nielsen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to get more than 64 colors on the X Windows for FBSD 2.1.6? Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 13:11:04 GMT Organization: ID Communication as Lines: 21 Message-ID: <331fc107.18625073@news.online.no> References: <3318E675.1C51@Rob.com> <5fcotu$kui$1@bofh.noc.best.net> <5fk5p9$req@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: elmer.idgruppen.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36655 >On 5 Mar 1997 16:08:09 GMT, brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) wrote: > >In article <5fcotu$kui$1@bofh.noc.best.net>, > rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) writes: >> >> Maybe you mean 256 colors, not 64. I believe startx starts your X >> server in 8bit depth... you can start it up with 16/24/32/bit depth >> (if your card/monitor can handle it) with >> >> startx -- -bpp 16 (or 24, or 32) > >You may want to look at ~/.xserverrc or X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers >if you want to automate this. - or add a DefaultColorDepth statement in the "Display" section of /etc/XF86Config . 'man XF86Config' for further info. Regards, Ragnar