Re: How to run HiColor in X?

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From: Preston Guise
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 00:00

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Scott Yang wrote:
> 
>         Sorry for this newbie question... I used ET4000/W32p before, and
> has been running XFree86 in 8 bit colour since I know 16/32 bpp is not
> available for ET4000. Just recently, I changed to a Diamond Stealth 64
> with S3 Trio64 chip. When I tried 'startx -bpp 16', X still starts with 8
> bit colour. Where did I do wrong? Is there anything I need to set in
> /etc/XF86CONFIG? Is my parameter to 'startx' incorrect? Or maybe X does
> not support HiColor for Diamond cards?

It's been a while since I've had access to my machine, but from memory,
you
have to apply the -- directive to get X to recognise the -bpp option.
Therefore, try:

startx -- -bpp 16

And that should put you into 16bpp mode IF your configuration is
correct.

Cheers,

-Preston Guise.
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