Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 23:16:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: William Melanson <wjm@gate.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XPM and /etc/XF86Config Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908212314060.1482-100000@peloton.runet.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.03.9908212246420.21878-100000@dakota.gate.net>
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Hi, On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, William Melanson wrote: > When I start xpm it displays at the default 8bpp. I've scoured through > almost all documentations (html references, man pages and README's) in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ to no avail. Is there some simple prefix in one of > the xpm files or does /etc/XF86Config have to be changed as such? I assume you mean XDM, not xpm (which are pixmaps). :-) In /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers change: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X to :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 32 where you can change the bpp setting to any of 8, 16, 24, 32 (I have 8 MB on my vid card so I use 32). Brett ***************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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