Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 21:41:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Mark Douglas Corner <mdc4e@viper.cs.virginia.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mach32 and 16 bit color Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960707214052.221D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960704165135.16336A-100000@viper.cs.Virginia.EDU>
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On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Mark Douglas Corner wrote: > I am having trouble getting 16 bit depth with my Mach32 2meg Vram card. > I have a CTX 1785Gme monitor. > > If I commment out the lines for 8 bit color, X will not start and says > "unsupported color depth" I know my card does 16 bit color under > Winblowz so why won't X do it? Here is my XF86Config. Thanks for any > help you can give Because the X server runs in 8bpp mode by default. To make it run in 16 bit mode, uncomment the 8bpp lines and put -bpp 16 on the command line to the X server. startx .... -- -bpp 16 if you're using startx (note the -- as the delimiter for sending switches directly to the server) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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