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From: ragnar@online.no (Ragnar Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to get more than 64 colors on the X Windows for FBSD 2.1.6?
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 13:11:04 GMT
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>On 5 Mar 1997 16:08:09 GMT, brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) wrote:
>
>In article <5fcotu$kui$1@bofh.noc.best.net>,
>	rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) writes:
>> 
>> Maybe you mean 256 colors, not 64.  I believe startx starts your X
>> server in 8bit depth...  you can start it up with 16/24/32/bit depth
>> (if your card/monitor can handle it) with
>> 
>>     startx -- -bpp 16 (or 24, or 32)
>
>You may want to look at ~/.xserverrc or X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers
>if you want to automate this.

- or add a DefaultColorDepth statement in the "Display" section of
/etc/XF86Config . 'man XF86Config' for further info.

Regards,

Ragnar