From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 16 12:43:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA07383 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 12:43:32 -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 MAA07374 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 12:43:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from default (host-207-53-122-140.mia.bellsouth.net [207.53.122.140]) by mail.mia.bellsouth.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA22356; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 15:43:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33F60D77.6537@bellsouth.net> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 15:28:39 -0500 From: Keith Leonard Reply-To: kleon@bellsouth.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jay D. Nelson" CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Color Depth on X References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jay D. Nelson wrote: > > Use: > > startx -- -bpp 16 > Thank you very much. Not only did that do the trick but I learned a lot, like my chipset will only support 8 & 16 and I had to the set an option to linear. The 16 depth is marvelous and the color is so rich compared to the 8 I've been using the last few weeks. Thanks again -- Keith ------------------------------------------------------- Keith Leonard - kleon@bellsouth.net Webmaster - http://www.rexart.com - Rex Art Supplies ------------------------------------------------------- Character is what you are in the dark - John Warfin -------------------------------------------------------