From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 23 22:21:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA09829 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 22:21:44 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA09759 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 1995 22:21:11 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA04474; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 14:30:35 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510240500.OAA04474@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: XFree in 24bpp mode? To: mwhite+@CMU.EDU (Matthew Jason White) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 14:30:34 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Matthew Jason White" at Oct 23, 95 09:08:19 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 881 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Matthew Jason White stands accused of saying: > > Is there some way I can tell if Xfree is in 24bpp mode? I have a Mach64 > card with 4Meg, but I have reason to believe that the server is > defaulting to 8bpp (The server dies when I comment out the 8bit config, > changing this config has profound effects on my display). How do I > check/correct this? Check /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers. If the commandline there has -bpp 24 then you are running in 24 bpp mode. The default is 8. > -Matt -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[