Bingo !!! That was the problem....
I could'nt work out how prefdm starts the server up, but I used xdpyinfo to
prin out the vendor string and it was x 3.3.6 ...
Next quesion. How do I make prefdm start x4 ?
-- Aravind
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Colin Humphreys
> Sent: Monday, 21 August 2000 17:29
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] X4 color depth at startup
>
>
> Mdk7.1 has both 3.3 and 4 versions... maybe you are running 3.3 in
> runlevel 5?
>
> What does prefdm point at?
>
> -Colin
>
> Aravind Naidu wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have sucessfully changed the XF86Config-4 file to start X at
> depth 16, but
> > this seems to work only if I do startx from the command line.
> >
> > If I change the runlevel to 5 and start X automatically, it
> defaults to a
> > color depth of 8....
> > Is there a parameter to prefdm(gdm) that I can pass to start at
> the color
> > depth of 16 ??
> >
> > Running Mdk 7.1
> >
> > -- Aravind
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