From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 13 13:05:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA20220 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:05:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sun1000.pwr.wroc.pl (root@sun1000.pwr.wroc.pl [156.17.250.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA20213 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:05:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from ci3ux.ci.pwr.wroc.pl (mmdf@ci3ux.ci.pwr.wroc.pl [156.17.10.3]) by sun1000.pwr.wroc.pl (8.8.5/8.8.5/ts-tmpl.970124) with SMTP id VAA29901; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:59:52 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:54:57 +0100 (MEZ) From: Jacek Szostek To: Joel Yancey cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Joel Yancey wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Jacek Szostek wrote: > > > I have installed XFree86 ver. 3.2 and configured XF86Config for S3 Trio > > 64V+ ( 2Mb Ram ), which I have. I have set up the "640x480" and "800x600" > > display modes and the display depth = 8, but I cannot get 256 colors. > > I have also set DefaultColorDepth in the screen section, but it is not > > working. > > When I launch X Window server, it reports using 6 bits per RGB value. I > > have no idea why, maybe I do something wrong. > > Can anybody help me ? > > > > Try starting Xwindows with: > startx -- -bpp16 > and see if this helps =) > Yes, I have set -bpp 16 option and it is working. Thank you for your help. I have also tried other colour depths and noticed that the two depths do not seem to work propetly. When I set the -bpp 8 option, X Window server reported 6 bpp and when I set the -bpp 24 option, it reported 32 bpp. I do not know why, but thank you again anyway. Jacek