From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 17 10:33:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marlo.eagle.ca (marlo.eagle.ca [209.167.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E7937B8DC for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:26:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from Bob (staff.eagle.ca [209.167.16.15]) by marlo.eagle.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBHIK9R40555; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:20:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freymann@eagle.ca) From: "ScaryG" To: Scott Nolde , Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:26:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: colour depth in x- svga Message-ID: <3C1DF285.23512.110818D@localhost> References: In-reply-to: <20011217124322.H76918-100000@bsd.smnolde.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body 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 On 17 Dec 2001 at 12:43, Scott Nolde wrote: > Be sure to set DefaultColorDepth > http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/Xwindows.phtml > >I have been trying to attain a colour depth greater than 8bit in X > but to no avail I went through this a while ago as well. Never could get anything in the config file to work correctly, but adding a switch on the command line works just peachy. Try this: startx -- -depth 24 There's a space after startx, then two dashes, a space, then -depth 24 (and a space between depth and 24) Depth of course can equal whatever your video card is capable of. 8, 16, 24 and 32? gf =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Gerry Freymann - Senior Systems Manager eagle.ca Internet Services www.eagle.ca Voice: 905-373-9313 Fax: 905-373-1801 http://www.eagle.ca/support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message