Subject: RE: XFree stuck in 8bit color, about to kill myself
From: John Hyde (JHyde@zuniversity.com)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 11:44:36 MST
from the command prompt type
X -bpp 16
Don't forget, you'll have some tweaking to do in the XF86Config file.
(Before you do anything, go into X, open a term, and type X -help. Read
everything and you should be good)
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> From: Adam Attarian
> Reply To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 11:20 AM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: XFree stuck in 8bit color, about to kill myself
>
> Greetings Everyone,
>
> I have XFree86 4.02 installed (we'll get to that in a moment) here on my
> dual 500 G4, and it's stuck in 8bit color, and it's horrendous.
>
> In the XFConfig86 file, if I change the 8 to a 16 in the monitor section
> towards the end of the doc, X won't boot. It'll throw me back into
> console,
> with no GUI.
>
> As installed with YDL, XF 3.x was installed, and that was also in 8bit
> color. I downloaded all of the XF4 source, compiled it, maked it, maked
> installed it, etc. So, I think I have all of that installed.
>
> Now, I --need-- to get out of 8bit color! And yes Virginia, I am a newbie.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam Attarian
>
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