Re: Quick question on screen depth

[olet@ifi.uio.no (Ole J. Tetlie)]

*-"Christian Lavoie" <clavoie@enter-net.com>
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| How can I configure the SVGA Xserver to use a 16bpp resolution by default?
| How am I supposed to switch to such a resolutio anyway? I haven't yet been
| able to use anything else than 256 colors res.

See in /etc/X11/XF86Config. In the Section "Screen" you put a line with
DefaultColorDepth 16. You can also put the line Depth 16 in your
SubSection "Display". If you use startx you can also do
startx -- -bpp 16.

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