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Date:      Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:35:13 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        William Richard <wdr@tdl.com>
Cc:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NCD X-terminal, FreeBSD and XDM ...
Message-ID:  <19991219143513.B465@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3853529B.8BF560E5@tdl.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912120230040.500-100000@thelab.hub.org> <3853529B.8BF560E5@tdl.com>

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On Saturday, 11 December 1999 at 23:45:31 -0800, William Richard wrote:
> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
>> I picked up an NCD Xterminal to work off of, since my monitor was/is
>> slowly going...got XDM to work and can start up my Xsessions from my
>> FreeBSD box...
>>
>> Problems: color sucks...
>>
>> If I used startx on my console, I always added -- -bpp 16, to improve
>> things...how does one do similar under xdm?  I can't find anything but the
>> man pages on this, and they don't *appear* to indicate anything I can do
>> as a runtime option ...
>
> I could be mistaken here (and by all means, correct me if I'm wrong),
> but I don't think the answer you're looking for is on the host machine.
> Remember that the X terminal is essentially a stripped-down computer
> running only an X server, and it is the X server that communicates with
> the video hardware.  Thus any configuration you want to do to your X
> server (like specifying display bit depth) should be done through your X
> terminal.

No, you're not mistaken.  The colour depth is a function only of the X
server.  And you'll probably find that it can only do 8 bpp, which
would completely explain the lousy colour.

> So try your X terminal documentation.

You should definitely do this; it could be that it will do more than
8bpp.

Greg
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