Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:13:07 +0800 (CST) From: FreeBSD mailing list <freebsd@uct.ucnet.hinet.net> To: Gong Wei <eng30219@leonis.nus.sg> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 16 bpp X server? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960312210849.10626A-100000@uct.ucnet.hinet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960312180026.25349A-100000@leonis.nus.sg>
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On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Gong Wei wrote: > Hi all of you there: > > Just a general question about X, last time I rebuild XF86-312 for > FreeBSD2.1.0. Everything is fine, the resulting server is faster than > XF86_SVGA because only cirrus devices are configured. > > The machine I am using is Pentium 75 with 8M Ram. The video card is > clgd5434 with 1M video ram. I've tried to let the server to run at 16 bpp > mode, but finally failed:-( Actually I am quite satisfy with 8 bpp screen, > just want to learn some more, so I tried to modify /etc/XF86Config, try to > recompile X server, try to read man pages, X docs... And finally I think > it's time to shout loudly around the net. 8-) > > Oh, just one more thing, I noticed that when X starts up, it prints a > line like: > "SVGA: server for 8-bit colour SVGA(Patchlevel 0)......." > So what does this line tell us? > Set .xserverrc in your home directory cat ~/.xserverrc exec /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 Then your Xserver will be in 16bpp mode! But the XF86312-SVGA is only support 8bpp 256 color mode! My display video card is S3-Trio64 with 2MB RAM, I am running 1024x768 16bpp color mode! > Thanks a lot to all of you who spend your time and effort to help people > like me:-). Really, thanks! > Best Regards! Roy Lin ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Welcome to Taiwan! http://www.tw.freebsd.org/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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