Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 06:54:39 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing color depth in X Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10012070653410.1032-100000@foobar.hyperhost.net> In-Reply-To: <366B871C.2693514E@uk.radan.com>
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Not for me they dont! Ctrl-Alt-& does nothing while Ctrl-Alt-+ cycles through the resolutions only. Thanks, _____________________________ Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> Hyperhost hosting and Design http://www.hyperhost.net On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Mark Ovens wrote: > Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > > > > >>>>> Patrick Seal writes: > > > > > Then whats the point of all the entries in the XF86Config file? > > > > They are used only when the X server starts. > > > > What about Ctrl-Alt - & Ctrl-Alt +?. Don't they cycle through _all_ > the entries in XF86Config, or just through all the resolutions for the > current colour depth? > > > > > And is their a way to change the color depth at startup > > > via command line? > > > > Yes. > > > > 1 If you start X11 with the startx command, this is explained in > > the man page (try 'man startx'): > > > > In order to start the server in 16bpp use > > startx -- -bpp 16 > > > > 2 if you use xdm, you can have several config files and use the -config > > option. > > > > Jean-Marc > > > > -- > > Jean-Marc Zucconi PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It > was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. > > Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. > Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions > mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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