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Subject: Re: 16 million colours ?
To: tony@hornet.netac.co.za (Tony Harverson)
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 16:33:19 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199601091258.OAA02058@hornet.netac.co.za> from "Tony Harverson" at Jan 9, 96 02:58:23 pm
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> 
> 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 can achieve this by the Depth keyword in the Screen->Display
section of /etc/XF86Config.

If you make it the only entry you force the server to choose this
setting - provided the on board memory amount and hardware (DAC) 
support it.

I believe there is also a command line option for the X server
to choose the visual.


> 
> I was wondering what settings one changes to get 16 Million colors..
> 
> TOny
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de