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Date:      Sun, 17 Mar 1996 21:50:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Kai Xie <kxie@user1.channel1.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 16 bit color X windows
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960317214739.454I-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960317231034.006af7f0@user1.channel1.com>

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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




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