Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 21:01:36 -0800 From: iratus@home.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, 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: <3.0.6.32.19991218210136.008e9820@mail.flrtn1.occa.home.com> In-Reply-To: <19991219143513.B465@freebie.lemis.com> References: <3853529B.8BF560E5@tdl.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912120230040.500-100000@thelab.hub.org> <3853529B.8BF560E5@tdl.com>
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At 14:35 12/19/99 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >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 > I could be way off base here (forgive if I am I am not up to date on the list) but, if your xserver will support 16 or 32 bit color to begin with you should be able to stitch in the command "DefaultColorDepth [16 or whatever]" in the screen section of your /etc/XFConfig file-If I am mistaken I apologise in advance for the waste of bandwidth. Jeff Phillips To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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