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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!csn!news-1.csn.net!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!haven.umd.edu!cs.umd.edu!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 color depth problem solved! Date: 17 Apr 1996 14:29:03 -0600 Organization: ABWAM, Inc., full service ISP, voice: 1+ 303 730-6050 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4l3kaf$6ht@stout.entertain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stout.entertain.com Hi all. I had previously posted that I was having trouble trying to up the color depth of my S3 XFree86 driver from 8 to 16 bits, and wanted to know how to do that easily. I solved it myself by RTFM'ing the xinit man page again. (Isn't there a Law of Physics that man pages read on a Saturday convey less information than when read on a weekday?) I've been using 'startx' to get XWin going, but now use: xinit -- -bpp 16 And it seems to work just fine.