From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 21:55:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA01143 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 21:55:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA01136 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 21:55:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA00801; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 21:50:33 -0800 Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 21:50:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Kai Xie cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 16 bit color X windows In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960317231034.006af7f0@user1.channel1.com> 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 Sun, 17 Mar 1996, Kai Xie wrote: > I have a question, I am currently running freebsd 2.1 > I have a number 9 gxe64 with 2mb dram, trying to run X-window in 16-bit > color mode. > when I startx -bpp 16 , it still runs as 256 color, but when I lauch the X > server with " X -bpp 16" > it runs in 16-bit color, what's the file that I should edit so when I startx > , it will run 16-bit. You need to run startx as follows: startx -- -bpp 16 the -- is to let startx know that the following options need to be passed to the X server. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major