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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!ais.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.he.net!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!not-for-mail From: Hugh LaMaster <lamaster@nas.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: XFree86 - 24/32 bpp at 1024x768 for #9 Motion 771 Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:47:50 -0700 Organization: NASA Ames Research Center Lines: 27 Message-ID: <33A03646.5656@nas.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: win144.nas.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; U; IRIX 6.2 IP22) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.windows.x.i386unix:23535 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42808 Apologies for posting such a trivial question, but, for some reason, I can't get truecolor configured correctly. By default, I get 8 bpp, but I have not been able to edit the config file and/or invoke the server correctly for truecolor at higher resolutions. I have not found the right man pages or FAQ info for this. AFAIK, I should actually be able to get 1280x1024 truecolor with the #9 Motion 771, but, it appears that the X server may be limited to 1024 x 768. Am I reading the man pages correctly? And, in any case, I could only get it to work with 640x480, not 1024 x 768. Pointers, anyone, to exactly what I need in the XF86* configuration file(s) to get truecolor 1024 x 768? Environment: FreeBSD 2.2.1 installation with default XFree86 installation. -- Hugh LaMaster, M/S 258-5, ASCII Email: hlamaster@mail.arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Or: lamaster@nas.nasa.gov Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 No Junkmail: USC 18 section 2701 Phone: 415/604-1056 Disclaimer: Unofficial, personal *opinion*.