Re: 16bit X-windows
This is a few days late (sorry)...but I just figured it out tonight.
To change the default server depth you can add a line to your XF86Config
file in the Screen section
DefaultColorDepth 16
This works on my Mach64 accelerated driver which has 2Mb of memory
for 1024x768. I had to delete the resolutions larger than 1024x768
to get this to work on my card due to the limited (?) memory.
I played with
startx -- -bpp NN
until I found the resolution/depth combination I liked and just made
that the default in the XF86Config file.
A friend of mine has a newer version of the same card (for PCI) with 8Mb
so he can use Depth 32 with 1024x768...(I'm jealous) ;-)
Bernt.
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> On 19 Mar, Alain Nadeau wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, ( Don ) wrote:
> >> > does anyone know how to configure x-windows 2 display 16 bit color? i
> >> > have a diamond stealth 2400XL and i'm running the S3V Server, but it only
> >> > loads X w/ a depth of 8. thanks
>
> >> have you tried?
> >> startx -- -bpp 16
>
> > Of course you can make it a permanent change by editing file
> > /etc/X11R6/bin/startx and add the following line to it:
>
> > serverargs="-bpp 16"
> > The startx command will always launch the 16-bit mode afterwards.
>
> Or if your using xdm change the line
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
> in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16
>
> Adding a line
> Depth 16
> in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, section Screen, subsection Display
> is how I do it right now - with xdm that is.
>
> Is that the generic solution, ie independent of starting mechanism
> being xdm or startx?
>
> /Michael
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