[H-GEN] Virtual screen sizes in XFree86

Paul Gearon pag at pisoftware.com
Wed Sep 6 04:05:30 EDT 2000


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"Joel Michael" <joel at diggy.com.au> wrote:
> 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.

Oh, I knew about this (I can only play quake3 in 16bpp mode), but I want
some way to do it that's dynamic (like changing graphics resolutions is). 
Besides, these people have just come from windoze... they want to use gdm
to log in.

Or do I just accept that it can't be done?

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