> On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, John Aspinall wrote: > > > I'd like to boot my machine directly into runlevel 5, with the X server > > running in 16 bits-per-pixel (bpp) mode. > ... > > So I edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to read: > > ":0 local /usr/bin/X11/X -bpp 16" > > but it still comes up in 8bpp mode. What's going wrong? > ... Belated thanks to Lawson Whitney, and Peter Barrett, for their respective replies. I finally got around to digging to the bottom of this. Turns out that gdm (and, I presume, kdm) are not-quite-so-thin veneers on top of xdm. One of the thicker pieces of their coverage is that they have their own config files for the servers that they bring up. Editing /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf got me the result I wanted. John Aspinall - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
