From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 19 19:45:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1115015193 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 19:45:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA01507; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:16:01 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:16:01 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: iratus@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, William Richard , The Hermit Hacker Subject: Re: NCD X-terminal, FreeBSD and XDM ... Message-ID: <19991220141600.E465@freebie.lemis.com> References: <3853529B.8BF560E5@tdl.com> <3853529B.8BF560E5@tdl.com> <19991219143513.B465@freebie.lemis.com> <3.0.6.32.19991218210136.008e9820@mail.flrtn1.occa.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991218210136.008e9820@mail.flrtn1.occa.home.com> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 18 December 1999 at 21:01:36 -0800, iratus@home.com wrote: > At 14:35 12/19/99 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> 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. > > I could be way off base here (forgive if I am I am not up to date on the > list) but, if your xserver will support 16 or 32 bit color to begin with > you should be able to stitch in the command "DefaultColorDepth [16 or > whatever]" in the screen section of your /etc/XFConfig file-If I am > mistaken I apologise in advance for the waste of bandwidth. Jeff Phillips Understand that the X server is running in the NCD box. It's not XFree86. 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