Re: Not enough colors - what's up with that?

[Federico Strati - Red Hat Linux User]

You could also modify the "startx" script
or the XF86Config file to make the bpp 16
option the default one:
(choose only one way)

this are excerpt from good startx & XF86Config:

/usr/X11R6/bin
----------startx--------------

userclientrc=$HOME/.xinitrc
userserverrc=$HOME/.xserverrc
sysclientrc=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
sysserverrc=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
# put here the -bpp 16 option
clientargs="-bpp 16"
serverargs=""

----------end startx----------

/etc/X11/XF86Config
----------XF86Config----------

Section "Screen"
   Driver          "SVGA"
   Device          "Primary Card"
   Monitor         "Primary Monitor"
# here the default color depth!
   DefaultColorDepth 16

# note that my X server is the SVGA... choose the right Section for
your.

----------XF86Config----------

Hope this help

ciao fede

Fred Whipple wrote:
> 
> Keven R. Pittsinger wrote:
> 
> > > >Any help would be appreciated, or perhaps someone could steer me to some
> > > >documentation on this, assuming there's a solution.
> > > >Bob Ross
> > >
> > > If I remember correctly, the XFree86 setup tends to put 8-bit color startup
> > > before 24-bit color startup.  You need to make sure that you card will
> > > do 24-bit color for the resolution that you are doing.  Once you know
> > > the highest resolution that the card will support at 24-bit color (make sure
> > > that the monitor will also support that resolution), configure the X server
> > > so that only 24-bit color is supported.
> > >
> > > Once you do that, your visual output will look great.
> >
> > How do you do this, by taking out the 8 bit displays?
> 
> startx -- -bpp 16startx -- -bpp 24
> startx -- -bpp 32
> 
> This assumes you have 16/24/32 bit color defined in your config file and that the
> appropriate resolutions can be obtained with this many colors.
> 
>     -Fred
> 
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