The system recognizes that I can do more than 8bpp. My XF86Config file
lists 8, 16, and 32bpp entries under the "accel" device, which it is using,
as the X server version actually in use is XF86_MACH64 or something similar
with MACH64 in the name (I have a 4meg video card with the ATI Mach64
chipset and it's sweet).
Obviously, it is choosing the 8bpp mode. Apparently, the way to get other
bpp is with something like
startx -- -bpp 16
or
startx -- -bpp 32
but I've grepped my root filesystem upwards, downwards, sideways, and
inside-out and can't find where startx is being (automatically) run at
startup. I looked in rc, rc.local, rc.sysinit, and inside the rc.5
directory (I *think* starting the X server is runlevel 5 stuff?) in
/etc/rc.d, then I tried grepping from "/", and nowhere does startx appear
in anything resembling a bootup script. Nor do the afore-mentioned things
in the rc.d directory appear to contain anything to do with starting the X
server. As near as I can determine, the X server isn't actually being run
at startup, and while I type at a root console I hallucinate the KDE :-)
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-() < circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a
`*' straight line." -------------------------------------------------
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