From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 4 08:33:42 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA26266 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 08:33:42 -0800 Received: from gilmore.nas.nasa.gov (gilmore.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.33.168]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA26259 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 08:33:42 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gilmore.nas.nasa.gov (8.3/8.3) with ESMTP id IAA07761; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 08:33:15 -0800 Message-Id: <199501041633.IAA07761@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov> Reply-To: Dave Tweten To: dusio cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't get 1024x768 in Xfree Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 08:33:14 -0800 From: Dave Tweten Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Joe Dusio writes: >I would still like to know: > How do I get ot the displays with the other > depths? The <+> keystroke moves me > between resolutions in a depth, but how do I > get the other depths? I had to ask the news group exactly the same question last month, while getting Truecolor to work on my system. The answer is that there is no way to switch between display depths. You can use the "-bpp " option when starting X to choose a depth for the duration of that server run, but you cannot make the X server switch between depths, on-the-fly. The place to make the selection for Xdm (which is what I use to start a server) is in X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers. It's not exactly clear to me where the choice should be specified for a startx user, perhaps your $HOME/.xserverrc file? Anyway, I hope this helps. Enjoy.