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Re: RH 5.1: X starts with wrong color depth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff)
Sat Nov 28 17:27:12 1998
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 17:30:42 -0500
From: Jeff <strider@acm.org>
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Not sure why you have this issue, but if you're just looking to save
keystrokes, you could always
alias x='startx -- -bpp 32 >& startx.log' (in your ~/.bashrc)
for example.
Good luck.
Jeff
Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> I'm running RH 5.1 and /etc/X11/XF86Config has the line,
> "DefaultColorDepth 32" in each screen section. However, when I use startx
> (by itself), X comes up in 8 bpp mode. Despite the default statement in the
> config file, I have to invoke startx -- -bpp 32 to get that depth.
>
> Has anyone an idea of what I'm doing wrong? The config file certainly
> looks OK to us.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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