From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 14:05:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA24209 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 14:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.montana.edu (fubar.cs.montana.edu [153.90.192.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA24190 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 14:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by cs.montana.edu; id AA09088; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 15:05:06 -0600 Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 15:05:06 -0600 (MDT) From: Justin Ashworth To: "Charles J. Cohen" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting more colors In-Reply-To: <3207A41D.41C67EA6@cybernet.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Charles J. Cohen wrote: > Hello! > > I have FreeBSD on my PC, and I am very pleased. However, when I try > to view an image, it looks like the image is lacking depth or shade, as > if it only has 16 colors. Can you tell me how to up the number of > colors my monitor can handle? I believe you're asking how to start X with different bit depths? X defaults to 8-bit mode (256 colors). You can start X in 16-bit mode (65,536 colors) with the line 'startx -- -bpp 16'. You can change the default resolution for 16 bpp mode in the /etc/XF86Config file. Hope that helps! - Justin J. Ashworth -- CS Student - Montana State University --- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU -- ashworth@cs.montana.edu - http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth