Paul Derbyshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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When booting, type "linux 3" at the boot prompt. This will boot linux w/o x.
The type "startx --16" or whichever you want.
Mikw
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Michael Scottaline
Linux 2.2.13
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