From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 05:14:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA12336 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 05:14:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from uct.ucnet.hinet.net (uct.ucnet.hinet.net [202.39.252.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA12118 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 05:12:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by uct.ucnet.hinet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA10904; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:13:08 +0800 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:13:07 +0800 (CST) From: FreeBSD mailing list To: Gong Wei cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 16 bpp X server? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++