Re: [newbie] 2 X-related questions

[John Aldrich]

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> 
> 2) I have an Imagine 128 vid card installed in my PII 350Mhz machine.  I
> can't seem to get any more than 8-bit depth out of it.  When I try
> commenting out the 8-bit depth section in my XF86Config file, it tells me
> that it can't find the screen for the default 8-bit depth.  How can I get
> more?
> 
Try running X by typing the following command at the prompt:
startx -- -bpp 16  (16-bit)
or
startx -- -bpp 24 (24-bit)
or
startx -- -bpp 32 (32-bit)

By default it appears that X starts in 8-bit mode.