On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Michael Rice wrote:
> > Now, I have a very (hopefully) simple problem. I have a 4Mb ATI video
> > card, which is enough to support 16Million colors. But, my X server runs
> > in 8 bit color. How do I change it such that I run higher color depths?
>
> via xdm/kdm:
>
> change the last line of /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 32
>
> (or 16, or 24, whichever works for your video display)
>
> via the command line:
>
> startx -- -bpp 32
>
> This is the best way to test it -- xdm will fail but keep trying to start
> back up if you get it wrong above.
Once you find a color depth that works, you can change the
DefaultColorDepth in the XF86Config file.
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Tom Bryan
Applied Research Laboratories
University of Texas at Austin
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