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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!csnews!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!stout.entertain.com!not-for-mail From: dwatson@stout.entertain.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: X Windows S3 bpp > 8? How to? Date: 17 Apr 1996 10:54:36 -0600 Organization: ABWAM, Inc., full service ISP, voice: 1+ 303 730-6050 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4l37oc$10e@stout.entertain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stout.entertain.com Hello fellow UNIX lovers: I am running XFree86 X Windows on various platforms, with freeBSD 2.1R. I'd like to run my S3 accellerated drivers at a higher depth than 8 bits, and have kind-of got it working, but wonder if there is a better way. I created a .xserverrc file in $HOME, and put the following in it: X -bpp 16 I think that the X driver is being started up somewhere else, and always with the default of 8 bits of color depth. Is there somewhere in XF86Config or some other X-related startup file that I can specify a deeper depth? TIA!