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From: The Psychotic Viper <psyv@sec-it.net>
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Subject: Re: Escaping 256 colours/8ppp in Xwindows 4.1
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Hi,

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Gerry Freymann wrote:

> > 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.
the "--" in the command line allows u to specific options to the X server,
namely in this case start up in a different colour depth. If you want to
be able to just startx and pop right into 16bit mode scroll down to the
definitions for your display driver (Section "Screen") and comment
out/remove the lines for the modes u DONT want, and leave just 16 in, like
follows from your config file:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth    16
        EndSubSection
EndSubSection
>  But never mind, I got it working! :-)
well if it was how i just explained sorry else this could be an easier
better way, or just a tip for others out there:)

>  Now if only I could figure out how to get my tv tuner working
hehe ur on ur own with that one:p

PsyV




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