With 2MB  , you a line in your XF86Config that only includes lower
resolutions.  The X Sever will ignore any lines that try to much
resolution and too many colors simultaneously.  Maybe this is your
answer...

On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Will Lowe wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, John Boggon wrote:
> 
> > Have already done this. xdm is installed and working. I figured I'd try and
> > get X to start in 16bp before I tried to configure xdm to do the same.
> 
> To set it to permanently use 16 bpp instead of 8,  edit
> /etc/X11/XF86Config and find the "Depth" setting for your screen.  Change
> it to "Depth 16".
>                                                       Will
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