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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!128.113.100.15!rpi!usenet From: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: XDM and more colors... Date: 4 Jun 1997 02:38:27 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5n2kf3$rpo@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <zk+TVMD4F99aez3@rb.xs.use.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: phoenix.its.rpi.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42253 In article <zk+TVMD4F99aez3@rb.xs.use.ch>, borki@rb.xs.use.ch (Reto Burkhalter) writes: > Hy > > I'm using xdm from rc.local to start my X. > (/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm). > > Now, I'd like to have more colors than 8 bpp's. > In which config-file do I have to change this? > > (Looked in the man pages, but found nothing...) This needs to be changed in /etc/XF86Config (or wherever you have it conigured to keep your configuration). This is an 'X' configuration question rather than an xdm configuration question. I would consult 'man XF86Config' -- David Cross ACS Consultant