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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: bpp - Setting bit depth from 8 to 16 or higher
Date: 7 Sep 1996 08:43:48 GMT
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rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) wrote:

> >  Question:  How do I change the default bit depth from 8 to 16 (running
> >             a 1280 x 1024 display).
> 
> The way i did it was to remove the SubSections for 8bpp and 32bpp from
> my /etc/XF86Config file.  I don't know if there's a better way, though.

Another way is to add ``-bpp 16'' to the server line in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers (assuming you are using xdm).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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