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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