Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:35:13 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: William Richard <wdr@tdl.com> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NCD X-terminal, FreeBSD and XDM ... Message-ID: <19991219143513.B465@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3853529B.8BF560E5@tdl.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912120230040.500-100000@thelab.hub.org> <3853529B.8BF560E5@tdl.com>
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On Saturday, 11 December 1999 at 23:45:31 -0800, William Richard wrote: > The Hermit Hacker wrote: > >> I picked up an NCD Xterminal to work off of, since my monitor was/is >> slowly going...got XDM to work and can start up my Xsessions from my >> FreeBSD box... >> >> Problems: color sucks... >> >> If I used startx on my console, I always added -- -bpp 16, to improve >> things...how does one do similar under xdm? I can't find anything but the >> man pages on this, and they don't *appear* to indicate anything I can do >> as a runtime option ... > > I could be mistaken here (and by all means, correct me if I'm wrong), > but I don't think the answer you're looking for is on the host machine. > Remember that the X terminal is essentially a stripped-down computer > running only an X server, and it is the X server that communicates with > the video hardware. Thus any configuration you want to do to your X > server (like specifying display bit depth) should be done through your X > terminal. No, you're not mistaken. The colour depth is a function only of the X server. And you'll probably find that it can only do 8 bpp, which would completely explain the lousy colour. > So try your X terminal documentation. You should definitely do this; it could be that it will do more than 8bpp. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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