Re: Changing bit depth on X

["Bernt T. Hansen" <bthansen@hookup.net>]

You could also add

   DefaultColorDepth 16

to your Screen section of the XF86Config file.

Here's the relevant parts of my XF86Config:

. . .
Section "Screen"
   Driver          "Accel"
   Device          "Primary Card"
   Monitor         "Primary Monitor"
   DefaultColorDepth 16
   SubSection "Display"
. . .

Hope this helps,

Bernt.
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> 
>    The Gardyan wrote:
>    > 
>    > How does one change the default color depth on X from 8 bit color to 16
>    > bit color.
> 
>    Try using the command line option: "startx -bpp 16". That should work
>    with any color depth like 24 or 32.
> 
> 
> It should be "startx -- -bpp 16"
> 
> -alex
> 
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