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Date:      Mon, 7 Feb 2000 14:46:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>
To:        David Wiard <dave@srn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Xserver
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002071443030.46643-100000@peloton.runet.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000207103542.0095a320@paladin.srn.com>

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Hi,

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, David Wiard wrote:

> I recently installed FreeBSD and found the chipset for my video card
> (Cirrus Logic GD5465) is supported in the SVGA server.  Is this
> chipset supported in any other Xserver; 256 colors is a little low for
> my tastes, but at least it works.

Why can't you do "startx --bpp 16" (or 24 or 32) when you start X
(assuming you start X w/ startx).  If you use xdm, then start it w/ a -bpp
# in your Xservers file.

Option 3 is to just set your default color depth to the bpp you want -
look through the XF86Config file.

Brett
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