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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Jan Toomsalu <jan@tele.vil.ee>
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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Jan Toomsalu wrote:

> How I can run X11R6 in Hicolor mode ??

su to root
edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers

add -bpp xx  where xx is the desired bit depth (16 I believe is HiColor).

Save and restart the server and you should be good.  make sure your
/etc/XF86Config has a proper setup for that bit depth.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major