You could also add DefaultColorDepth 16
to your Screen section of the XF86Config file. Here's the relevant parts of my XF86Config: . . . Section "Screen" Driver "Accel" Device "Primary Card" Monitor "Primary Monitor" DefaultColorDepth 16 SubSection "Display" . . . Hope this helps, Bernt. -- Bernt T. Hansen - Norang Consulting Incorporated --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems/ - 235 Bellamy Road N., Scarborough - phone: (416)431-6216 Analyst - Ontario, Canada M1J-2L7 ---------- fax: (416)431-2617 PGP Public Key fingerprint = CB 99 EC 07 DE F8 D5 8D 59 99 A5 E7 7E 7A 8C 9C > > The Gardyan wrote: > > > > How does one change the default color depth on X from 8 bit color to 16 > > bit color. > > Try using the command line option: "startx -bpp 16". That should work > with any color depth like 24 or 32. > > > It should be "startx -- -bpp 16" > > -alex > >
