SUMMARY: undo 24/8 bit color choice

From: Bevan Broun (bevanb@ee.uwa.edu.au)
Date: Wed Mar 03 1999 - 20:33:06 CST


I was trying to undo my selection of 24 bit graphics mode that I made
when installing solaris.

Thanks to

Sebastian Benoit <benoit@Mathematik.Uni-Marburg.de>
Todd Herr <herrt@hankhill.iisd.sra.com>
Gerhard den Hollander <gerhard@james.jason.nl>
Davin Milun <milun@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
Sean Korten <kortens@verdi.iisd.sra.com>

The most complete answer came from Gerhard den Hollander
<gerhard@james.jason.nl>:

>1) best option
>use the confioguration program that comes with your video hardware
>(afbconfig for elite cards
> ffbconfig for creatorcards
> m64config for m64cards
> XXXconfig for well, whatever card :0 )
>
>2) Alternatively, for CDE,
>change the file
>/usr/dt/config/Xservers
>(make sure you read the comments at the top about copying to /etc )
>and add the -defdepth 8 option to the line that starts the Xserver
>
>As for openwin, the openwin man pages talk a lot about configuring
>your Xserver startup I took the easy way out and put a .Xservers file
>in my home dir.
>
>Check the openwin manpage on how to set this clobally

Thanks again.

BB

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