This is a few days late (sorry)...but I just figured it out tonight. To change the default server depth you can add a line to your XF86Config file in the Screen section DefaultColorDepth 16
This works on my Mach64 accelerated driver which has 2Mb of memory for 1024x768. I had to delete the resolutions larger than 1024x768 to get this to work on my card due to the limited (?) memory. I played with startx -- -bpp NN until I found the resolution/depth combination I liked and just made that the default in the XF86Config file. A friend of mine has a newer version of the same card (for PCI) with 8Mb so he can use Depth 32 with 1024x768...(I'm jealous) ;-) Bernt. -- Bernt T. Hansen - Norang Consulting Incorporated --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems/ - 235 Bellamy Road N., Scarborough - phone: (416)431-6216 Analyst - Ontario, Canada M1J-2L7 ---------- fax: (416)431-2617 PGP Public Key fingerprint = CB 99 EC 07 DE F8 D5 8D 59 99 A5 E7 7E 7A 8C 9C > On 19 Mar, Alain Nadeau wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, ( Don ) wrote: > >> > does anyone know how to configure x-windows 2 display 16 bit color? i > >> > have a diamond stealth 2400XL and i'm running the S3V Server, but it only > >> > loads X w/ a depth of 8. thanks > > >> have you tried? > >> startx -- -bpp 16 > > > Of course you can make it a permanent change by editing file > > /etc/X11R6/bin/startx and add the following line to it: > > > serverargs="-bpp 16" > > The startx command will always launch the 16-bit mode afterwards. > > Or if your using xdm change the line > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X > in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 > > Adding a line > Depth 16 > in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, section Screen, subsection Display > is how I do it right now - with xdm that is. > > Is that the generic solution, ie independent of starting mechanism > being xdm or startx? > > /Michael > -- > | Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | > | Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, TDGP#20 | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > > >