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From: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net>
To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
cc: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: changing color depth in X
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Not for me they dont!  Ctrl-Alt-& does nothing while Ctrl-Alt-+ cycles
through the resolutions only.

Thanks,

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Patrick Seal
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On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Mark Ovens wrote:

> 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.
> > 
> 
> What about Ctrl-Alt - & Ctrl-Alt +?. Don't they cycle through _all_
> the entries in XF86Config, or just through all the resolutions for the
> current colour depth?
> 
> 
> >  > 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
> > 
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> -- 
>   Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It
>   was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place.
> 
> Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd.
> Bath, Avon, England.  Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions
> mailto:marko@uk.radan.com    http://www.radan.com
> 


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