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From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk>
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Subject: RE: configuring x resolutions
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:40:18 +0100
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Hi Bart,

Try starting X by using 'startx -- -bpp 16'

That should do the trick. Note the two '-'s before the '-bpp 16' bit, it's
important.

Jeff

>Hi,
>	X runs fine but I noticed it was running in the 8-bit modes I set.
>It wasn't running in the 16-bit modes. It has to be running in 8-bit color
>because the gradients in WindowMaker are horrible. 
>	I thought that by not specifying any 8-bit resolutions (I am using
>xf86config) the server would go straight to 16-bit modes since that is
>next down the line. But when I tried starting up X it said:
>
>Config Error: /etc/XF86Config:530
>
>	ViewPort    0 0
>	^^^^^^^^^
>
>Mode name expected
>X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
>
>I think its safe to assume that I did this by removing the 8-bit modes.
>But how else am I to get X to run in the 3 resolutions I specified for
>16-bit color mode. I'd rather run in 16-bit than have to deal with 256
>colors and ugly gradients.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bart Trzynadlowski
	




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