Re: [newbie] Changing the default X windows color depth.

Steve Spiller wrote: 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..

Re: [[newbie] Changing the default X windows color depth.]

"Wayne Boaz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [newbie] Changing the default X windows color depth.

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, you wrote: Can anyone tell me how to change the default startup color depth from 8bpp to 16bpp? Should be able to do it with "startx -- -bpp 16" Does this not work for you? Is there an init file I can edit to add the '-- -bpp 16' settings to? I've tried a lot and

Re: [newbie] Changing the default X windows color depth.

XF86Config You can edit it with kedit run man XF86Config in an xterm first. There is a setting called DefaultColorDepth. Civileme 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

Re: [newbie] Changing the default X windows color depth.

: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing the default X windows color depth. On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, you wrote: Can anyone tell me how to change the default startup color depth from 8bpp to 16bpp? Should be able to do it with "startx -- -bpp 16" Does this

Re: [Re: [[newbie] Changing the default X windows color depth.]]

"Wayne Boaz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: == Try using XF86Setup. Color depth can be modified quite easily there. That trashes my mouse every time or makes it so X won't even start. I select the Intellipoint mouse and /dev/mouse but when it starts the

RE: [[newbie] Changing the default X windows color depth.]

work. Bret Craw -Original Message- From: Wayne Boaz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] Changing the default X windows color depth.] == Try

Re: [newbie] Changing the default X windows color depth.

Thanks! That did it! Quake3 rocks on the cable modem and seems just as fast as on my Win98 partitions! Wayne 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