From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 9: 2:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe62.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.14.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D12C37B417 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:02:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:02:46 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [209.195.212.67] From: "Paul '" To: Subject: colour depth in x- svga Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:59:45 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Dec 2001 17:02:46.0007 (UTC) FILETIME=[A62FD070:01C1871C] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been trying to attain a colour depth greater than 8bit in X but to no avail.. ctrl-alt-+ only toggles between 8bit 640x480 and 800x600 for me.. i tried hacking my XF86Config file so there is no 8 bit referance at all, but when i run startx it claims 8bit is the default and cannot find it. i have a matrox mystique with 2 megs ram, tried both option 410 and 430 from the vid card database thingy, neither really give me any great res/colour options to choose from. any ideas? i was just thinking about maybe trying the graphical setup, not at home right now to try that though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message