From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 9:43:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smnolde.com (att-98-60-141.atl.mediaone.net [24.98.60.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822C937B41E for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:43:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd.smnolde.com ([192.168.10.7] helo=bsd ident=smn@smnolde.com) by smnolde.com with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 16G1nn-0003mQ-00; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:43:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:43:46 -0500 (EST) From: Scott Nolde To: Paul ' Cc: Subject: Re: colour depth in x- svga In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011217124322.H76918-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Be sure to set DefaultColorDepth http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/Xwindows.phtml - Scott smacked into the keyboard previously by owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:59:45 -0500 >From: Paul ' >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: colour depth in x- svga > >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 > Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message