If you have defined 16 or 32 colors with Xconfigurator

you can change the color depth by issuing the command

startx -- -bpp 16 for 16 colors
startx -- -bpp 32 for 32 colors

if you get an error your hardware does not support them.



joel

-----Original Message-----
From: Harold Weiss-Wallrath
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Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 3:39 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: changing the default colour depth?


> 
> Hi,
> 
> Whenever I start X it always starts up with a depth of 8, how do I 
> change
> it to 16 or 32? I know there is a host of entries in 
> /etc/X11/XF865Config
> and I have played with it. I thought X would look at the first entry
in 
> the
> file which has a depth of 16, however its using the information from 
> the
> second entry that has a depth of 8. I hope this makes sense. I am
using
> rh6.1 with gnome + englightenment.
> 
> Cheers
> Nelson
> 
> 

Adding the line 

DefaultColorDepth 16 

(or whatever depth you want) to your XF86Config file does the trick.
It's
int the docs somewhere, but I got this from this list a while back.

excerpt from my own XF86Config:

# The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32,
Mach64)

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "accel"
    Device      "ATI 3D Charger"
    Monitor     "Bridge 17 inch OSD"
    DefaultColorDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1024x768" "800x600" "1280x1024"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
 
Hope this helps 

Harold


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