> I think 32 would correspond to millions of colors. 2^8 = 256 colours 2^16 = 64 K colours 2^24 = 16 M colours 2^32 = 4 G colours You could also have a DefaultColorDepth entry in /etc/X11/XF86Config like... [...] Section "Screen" Driver "accel" Device "S3 Trio64V2/DX (generic)" Monitor "My Monitor" DefaultColorDepth 16 [...] Regards -- Sarel Botha