Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 14:46:30 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: David Wiard <dave@srn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xserver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002071443030.46643-100000@peloton.runet.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000207103542.0095a320@paladin.srn.com>
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Hi, On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, David Wiard wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD and found the chipset for my video card > (Cirrus Logic GD5465) is supported in the SVGA server. Is this > chipset supported in any other Xserver; 256 colors is a little low for > my tastes, but at least it works. Why can't you do "startx --bpp 16" (or 24 or 32) when you start X (assuming you start X w/ startx). If you use xdm, then start it w/ a -bpp # in your Xservers file. Option 3 is to just set your default color depth to the bpp you want - look through the XF86Config file. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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