On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 10:41:07 -0500 (EST)
> From: Justin Zygmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: 24 bpp in Red Hat linux
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to get 24 bpp depth instead of 32? My
> video card only has 2 MB of ram and it just falls short of running 32bpp
> in 800x600.
>
> thanks...
>
>
This is what I have at the bottom of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file to run it
at 16bpp:
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "2 the Max MAXColor S3 Trio64V+"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
I'm still running Red Hat Linux 6.2 though, and I chose not to upgrade this
box to the latest XFree86. You may want to check into that too.
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