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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Tony Harverson wrote:

> Hiya All,
> 
> I was just wondering if anyone has got xfree86 operating in more than
> 256 colours.
> 
> The Init sequence of Xfree86 correctly identifies the card as a cirrus
> logic gd5430 with 1mb ram.

	you have to start the Xserver with the number of bits per pixel 
option.  i use xdm and have the following line in 
usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers

:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16

	that's 16 bits per pixel.  

Jonathan M. Bresler        FreeBSD Postmaster         jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
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