From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 6 21:10:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA16316 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:10:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA16309; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:10:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from port4.annex8.radix.net (port4.annex8.radix.net [205.252.108.4]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA00532; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 00:10:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:08:24 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Seal To: Jean-Marc Zucconi cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing color depth in X In-Reply-To: <199812070322.EAA23802@qix.jmz.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG But I use xinit. Thanks, _____________________________ Patrick Seal Hyperhost hosting and Design http://www.hyperhost.net On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > >>>>> Patrick Seal writes: > > > Then whats the point of all the entries in the XF86Config file? > > They are used only when the X server starts. > > > And is their a way to change the color depth at startup > > via command line? > > Yes. > > 1 If you start X11 with the startx command, this is explained in > the man page (try 'man startx'): > > In order to start the server in 16bpp use > startx -- -bpp 16 > > 2 if you use xdm, you can have several config files and use the -config > option. > > Jean-Marc > > -- > Jean-Marc Zucconi PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.ORG > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message