Re: xserver-xfree86 on Woody 3.0r0

[Scott Holder <ncc1701@mindspring.com>]

At 08:11 AM 10/23/2002 -0400, you wrote:

> X fails using 2 bit color, and 4 bit color. Works fine on 8 bit mode. 16 
> bit mode produced a lot of funky colors. When it failed on 2 or 4 bit it 
> left a log message saying unsupported pixel format.
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Try a startx -- -bpp 15 (or is it -depth 15 now?) and I bet you'll find it 
works. Macintosh Thousands of colors is actually 15 bit, not 16. Looks much 
nicer on Thousands too ;)

As a more permanent workaround, you can set the DefaultDepth to 15 in the 
config file.

Scott Holder