From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 13 18:48:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA19357 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.186.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA19352 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:48:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA01089; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:48:14 -0700 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 18:48:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Justin Ashworth cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing bit depths In-Reply-To: <31E7DD15.41C67EA6@structured.net> 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 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