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Re: Changing video color modes



> Can anyone tell me how I can get 24-bit color?  I have an ATI Mach64
> vid card with 2 meg's of ram, and it runs 24-bit fine at 800x600, or
> 32-bit at 640x480 no problem.

Read /usr/doc/X11/README.Mach64, and others in that directory.

It will most likely require passing the -bpp 24 option to the X server.
For example: startx -- -bpp 24

I'm not sure how to do it with xdm, but it shouldn't be hard.



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