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 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | So don't beg, and don't plead. | > | You can't have the heart you make bleed. | > | -- The Beautiful South, "Love is..." | > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > G John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .