From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 5 16:21:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marlo.eagle.ca (marlo.eagle.ca [209.167.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C11B37B407 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from trailer (dialin22.eagle.ca [209.167.16.233]) by marlo.eagle.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f95NFNO75144; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 19:15:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu) Message-ID: <001301c14df4$8bb5f000$0200a8c0@trailer> From: "Gerry Freymann" To: "Mark Rowlands" Cc: References: <20011005211322.5F95037B403@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Escaping 256 colours/8ppp in Xwindows 4.1 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 19:22:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > have you tried startx -depth 24 ?.......also try mentioning what you actually > have as a video card, which version of X, of freebsd Actually, I read the option of depth after startx and it didn't change anything, until I received an email response suggesting: startx -- -depth 16 With the extra dashes? It worked. I had already tried startx -depth 16 and nothing changed. Go figure. My Video card is an ATI Rage GX with /tv ( I think it was listed in my config). My version of X was indicated in the subject line. 4.1.0 But never mind, I got it working! :-) Now if only I could figure out how to get my tv tuner working gf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message