RE: tlug: X resolution / color depth

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Jonathan Byrne--3Web wrote:

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 7ol : Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>
> 6f : tlug@example.com <tlug@example.com>
> z : 1998N318z 9:15
> < : RE: tlug: X resolution / color depth
> 
> 
> >> The command line switch when you start X and want to set your color depth
> >> is:
> >> startx -bpp nn
> >> Where nn is the color depth (8, 16, 24) that you want.
> >>
> >
> >No, that's not right.  It's:
> >
> >startx -- -bpp nn
> 
> 
> That's what I thought too, but if I'm not cracking up, I saw something that
> gave it the way I wrote it in a man page, and it seemed to work, if I'm not
> cracking up :-)   It was on my home machine.  I'll try to find it again and
> copy it down.
> 

I assure you, this is correct.

Maybe the XFree86 3.3.2 SVGA server now doesn't think that the ARK can do
16bpp, and the 3.3.1 server did?

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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