Re: Color Bit Depth

[Rick Macdonald <rickm@home.com>]

On Fri, 21 May 1999, dyer wrote:

> > I have a small question about XF86 and color bit depths.  I have my
> > machine running a 32 bit color at the moment, but some times I I would
> > like to change it to 16 bit for the ocational game of Quake, is there a
> > easy way to do this with out editing the config file.  I know you can set

> kill the xserver and use:
> startx -- -bpp 16

If you have lots of memory (or even just lots of swap), you can start a
second xserver without killing the first:

startx -- -bpp 16 :1

...RickM...