One more X question
Ray Schwamberger
ironclaw69 at altavista.com
Fri Dec 31 19:11:42 CST 1999
The easiest way I've found to do this (on a per-user basis) is to make a file in your home
directory called .xserverrc and add the following line verbatim...
exec X -bpp 16
The alternative would to be to use whichever X configuration utility your distribution comes with
(Xconfigurator for RedHat, SaX for SuSE, or XF86Setup for some others) which will edit the
XF86Config file for your.
Or you could edit /etc/XF86Config manually and change the line that looks like this (
DefaultColorDepth 8) although you'd have to adjust the bit value (8) to whichever your current
configuration defaults to.
Ray Schwamberger
>Is there any way to force X to use 16bpp for the >color depth? I have a 16MB
>AGP TNT based Video card and finally got X up in >1024x768, BUT I only have
>8bpp. It is that way in 640x480 and 800x600 modes as >well. In my
>XF86Config file, I tried commenting out the 8bpp >entry for my display, but X
>would not even start up. It said that I was missing >an entry for 8bpp. How
>does the XF86Config file work? Does it use the first >display option that it
>comes to? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>Gene Dascher
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