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Re: mouse problems and display problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek W Truesdale)
Fri Feb 2 04:24:09 1996

From: Derek W Truesdale <derekt@MIT.EDU>
To: "Keith D. Smith" <kdsmith@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Feb 1996 01:34:50 EST."
             <199602020634.BAA00520@lesia.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 04:19:53 EST

to make X startup with 16 bpp, find the line in
/etc/athena/login/config 
which starts with 
X	/usr/X11/b...
and add 
-bpp 16 
to that line.

Then the first mode with Depth = 16 in your XF86Config will be the
default. 

---
I think.  :-)
just learned this stuff recently at the IAP NetBSD class.

Derek.



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