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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 1995 14:30:34 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        mwhite+@CMU.EDU (Matthew Jason White)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XFree in 24bpp mode?
Message-ID:  <199510240500.OAA04474@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <gkX3m3i00WB5AUF4JA@andrew.cmu.edu> from "Matthew Jason White" at Oct 23, 95 09:08:19 pm

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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

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