From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 10: 0:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tharmas.rintrah.org (dhcp065-031-016-002.insight.rr.com [65.31.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 202BD37B41C for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:00:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 74012 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Dec 2001 18:00:44 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:00:44 -0500 From: devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org To: Paul ' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: colour depth in x- svga Message-ID: <20011217130044.A73962@tharmas.rintrah.org> Mail-Followup-To: Paul ' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from smak_420@hotmail.com on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:59:45AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:59:45AM -0500, Paul ' wrote: > I have been trying to attain a colour depth greater than 8bit in X but to no > avail.. > > ctrl-alt-+ only toggles between 8bit 640x480 and 800x600 for me.. > > i tried hacking my XF86Config file so there is no 8 bit referance at all, > but when i run startx it claims 8bit is the default and cannot find it. > > i have a matrox mystique with 2 megs ram, tried both option 410 and 430 from > the vid card database thingy, neither really give me any great res/colour > options to choose from. > > any ideas? i was just thinking about maybe trying the graphical setup, not > at home right now to try that though. > Are you running Xfree86 3 or 4? From what I remember, XFree 4 uses a different config file than 3. I think it's "XF86Config-4." --devin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message