Re: >8bpp?

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote:

> 
> Yo-
> 
> How to I get xdm to start with 16bpp or 24bpp?  It is currently starting
> in 8bpp so AfterStep looks terrible.
> 

Best method, probably, is to go into your /etc/X11/XF86Config file,
go down to the section in your XF86Config that looks like this:

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "svga"
    # Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
    #Device      "Generic VGA"
    Device      "S3 ViRGE/DX (generic)"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
    DefaultColorDepth 24

and add the DefaultColorDepth line.

You need to pick the right screen section - this one is if you are using
the svga server.  There is another for xaccel, and another for vga16,
etc...

Alternatively, you could start X as startx -- -bpp 24, but you're using
xdm, so that's not ideal.

You could probably edit the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver to have -bpp 24
on the end, but that sounds ugly to me..


Jules

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