I think "setup" is good enough for this.
> Wayne Boaz wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to change the default startup color depth from
8bpp
> > to 16bpp?
> >
> > I am running:
> > - Mandrake-Linux 6.0
> > - PCI Matrox Millennium II card with 4 megs of ram
> > - PCI Voodoo2 card with 8 megs of ram
> >
> > I got the Voodoo2 drivers installed last night but that was no help. I
have
> > manually started the X server in 16bpp color mode but I can't cycle up
to
> > 16bpp colors from 8bpp with <ctrl><alt>+. I need 16bpp to run Quake3.
> >
> > Is there an init file I can edit to add the '-- -bpp 16' settings to?
I've
> > tried a lot and learned a lot but this has me stumped! ;.-(
> >
> > Wayne
>
> You need to edit /etc/x11/XF86Config.
>
> Towards the end you will see something like
> Section "Screen"
> Driver "Accel"
> Device "Primary Card"
> Monitor ... so on and so forth..
>
> Look for the line
> DefaultColorDepth 8
>
> Change it to 16..
>
> Save it..
>
> Shutdown, reboot.
>
> You must be root to do this, so do it thru a terminal as su
> or use KDE's file manager, in which you must log in as root to use.
>
> Alan
>
> --
> ===============================================
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
> Coming to you with Linux-Mandrake 6.0
>
>
