From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 18 20: 6:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B5A14A23 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:05:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA00685; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:35:14 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:35:13 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: William Richard Cc: The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NCD X-terminal, FreeBSD and XDM ... Message-ID: <19991219143513.B465@freebie.lemis.com> References: <3853529B.8BF560E5@tdl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <3853529B.8BF560E5@tdl.com> WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message