From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 7 21:41:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA05096 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 21:41:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.186.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA05087 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 21:41:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA00263; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 21:41:57 -0700 Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 21:41:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Mark Douglas Corner cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mach32 and 16 bit color In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Mark Douglas Corner wrote: > I am having trouble getting 16 bit depth with my Mach32 2meg Vram card. > I have a CTX 1785Gme monitor. > > If I commment out the lines for 8 bit color, X will not start and says > "unsupported color depth" I know my card does 16 bit color under > Winblowz so why won't X do it? Here is my XF86Config. Thanks for any > help you can give Because the X server runs in 8bpp mode by default. To make it run in 16 bit mode, uncomment the 8bpp lines and put -bpp 16 on the command line to the X server. startx .... -- -bpp 16 if you're using startx (note the -- as the delimiter for sending switches directly to the server) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major