RE: Problems changing colour depth.

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@varesearch.com>]

On 01-Jul-99 Revenant wrote:
> I dlded and installed the newer version of the i740 drivers, and I've
> now got the screen running in 1024 x 768 mode okay (yay!) but it won't
> use a colour depth of greater than 8.  I've tried running startx with
> the -bpp option and it still came up in 8-bit mode.  
> 

in the Screens section, where ity talks about the vid card and resolutions add:

DefaultColorDepth 16

or 24 or what ever.

Section "Screen"
   Driver          "Accel"
   Device          "G200"
   Monitor         "Mine"
   DefaultColorDepth 32
   BlankTime       0
   SuspendTime     0
   OffTime         0
   SubSection "Display"
      Depth        8
      Modes        "1280x1024"
      ViewPort     0 0
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Depth        15
      Modes        "1280x1024"
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Depth        16
      Modes        "1280x1024"
      ViewPort     0 0
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Depth        24
      Modes        "1280x1024"
      ViewPort     0 0
   EndSubSection
   SubSection "Display"
      Depth        32
      Modes        "1280x1024"
      ViewPort     0 0
   EndSubSection
EndSection