Rajnish Tiwari wrote:
>
> Hello Folks,
>
> Firstly, thanks a million to everyone for their
> assistance regarding my fat32 and lilo question (earlier).
>
> I have slowly but surely installed Xfree86 and got
> it running properly at 1024x768.
>
> Is there a way to determine what colour depth X-Windows
> is running at?? If it is not running at a desired colour
> depth, then is there a way to force it use a particular depth ??
> (I have configured xdm to run at startup).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Rajnish
startx -- -bpp [16|24|32]
from the commandline one of these numbers will change the colour depth.
So long as that
colour depth is configured in /etc/XF86Config (or whereever your X
config is)
When you're running X, from an xterm run xdpyinfo it'll pop up some
text showing you
what X is doing :) Colour depths etc etc.
And if you want to make xdm fire up in more than 8 bit colour go edit
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers it will have a line similar to this:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
just change it to be:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16
Et Viola! :o)
Good luck :)
oh, p.s. Check that your Colour depth WORKS from command line first.
i.e. use startx -- -bpp 16
to test it.. if you don't get it right xdm will sit there and bounce not
being able to load.
cya
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