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Re: How to start X in 16 bpp ?



On Sun, 4 Feb 1996, Ilan Finci wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> I want to run my X windows in 16 bpp (I have  CL-GD5430 card).
> I found how to do it when running startx by hand but my question is - 
> 
> How do I set xdm to start the server in 16 bpp ?
> 
> (with startx it is :
>     startx -- -bpp 16
> but thats not working with xdm)

modify /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers to read:

:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16

Merkin? You there?

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Marc A. Volovic (marc@leonardo.ls.huji.ac.il)
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