From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 16 05:54:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA22069 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 05:54:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.mia.bellsouth.net (mail.mia.bellsouth.net [205.152.16.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA22063 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 05:54:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from default (host-207-53-123-128.mia.bellsouth.net [207.53.123.128]) by mail.mia.bellsouth.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA29953 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 08:54:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33F5AD9F.249A@bellsouth.net> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 08:39:43 -0500 From: Keith Leonard Reply-To: kleon@bellsouth.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Color Depth on X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howdy a week or so ago I asked about problems with the resolution and color depth of Netscape and the answer came back that these areas were controlled by X. So I attempted to control X with startx and(all suggested): -bpp16 -bpp 16 16 --bpp16 -bpp32 --bpp32 32 -bpp 32 (yes XF86Config shows all three as possible depths with there respective window sizes) When I run 'xwininfo' the color depth is always 8 (no matter what window I click on), the images are just as grainy and the colors start going crazy very quickly (which would seem to me -a total X newbie - to indicate low color depth ie. 8 ). Can anyone give me a clear idea of what I need to do to increase the color depth. I'm using a Cirrus 5434 video chip with 1 meg of ram. Please no ' flib the dwerble with a pinny and then drib the wilden' answers - I really don't have a clue on X. Thanks in Advance -- Keith ------------------------------------------------------- Keith Leonard - kleon@bellsouth.net Webmaster - http://www.rexart.com - Rex Art Supplies ------------------------------------------------------- Remember - no matter where you go , there you are - Buckaroo -------------------------------------------------------