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Date:      Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:48:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Justin Ashworth <justin@structured.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Changing bit depths
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960713184739.1065C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31E7DD15.41C67EA6@structured.net>

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On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Justin Ashworth wrote:

> How would I go about changing the default bit depth in X?  I tried
> changing the 8 to 16 in /etc/XF86Config but startx balked because it
> couldn't find a definition for the default bit depth (8).
> 
> Any ideas will be gratefully appreciated...thanks!

Edit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers and put "-bpp 16" on the command 
line.  It'll require superuser priv's.

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




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