[H-GEN] Virtual screen sizes in XFree86

[Joel Michael]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gearon" <pag at pisoftware.com>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Virtual screen sizes in XFree86


> How do I change between depths though?  I've never done this, and I
> haven't seen the docs which explain it.
>
try (from memory) 'startx -- -bpp 32'.  read the man pages and run-time
help for the X server you're running (XF86_SVGA and cousins) and pass
the server-specific arguments after a double dash from startx, as
illustrated above.

Hope this helps :-)

Regards
Joel Michael
System Administrator
http://www.diggy.com.au
Tel: +61 7 3367 3555     Fax: +61 7 3367 3544
mailto:joel at diggy.com.au

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