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Re: RH 5.1: X starts with wrong color depth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hossein S. Zadeh)
Sun Nov 29 05:25:30 1998
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 21:24:59 +1100 (EST)
From: "Hossein S. Zadeh" <hossein@bf.rmit.edu.au>
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On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Jeff wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> Jeff,
>
> Thanks. I know that there are kledges, but I'd rather understand why I
> have the problem and then solve it.
>
X defaults to b bit. To change the default edit /etc/X11/XF86Config file
and towards the end of it where color depths are defined add the following
line:
DefaultColorDepth 16
Replace 16 with whatever color depth you'd like to make the default.
cheers,
Hossein
P.S: Here's where I've added mine:
....blah
....blah
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "ViRGE/DX or /GX"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
....blah
....blah
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