Subject: Re: XFree stuck in 8bit color, about to kill myself
From: Jonathan Belson (jon@witchspace.com)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 14:26:59 MST
Hiya
> 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.
To start X with 16bit colour, try:
startx >& error.log -- -bpp 16
This will capture X output to a log file which you can examine with
less or whatever. If it just bombs out, you should be able to see
why.
PS If you decide to end it all, will you bequeath me your G4? 8^)
-- C-YA Jon
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