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by **John Brashie** » Tue, 03 Aug 1999 04:00:00

I am trying to discover how to reset the screen resolution.
I know about the CTRL ALT +,- option, but I want to
completely reset the number of colors. The mouseconfig
takes you back to the part of the setup for the mouse. Am
I looking for something similar for the screen settings?
Any help is welcome.

Thanks,
John Brashier

by **John Brashie** » Tue, 03 Aug 1999 04:00:00

Mann,

Thanks. That was exactly the ticket.

Brashier

by **Howard Man** » Wed, 04 Aug 1999 04:00:00

[Foolow-ups to c.o.l.s]

Quote:> I am trying to discover how to reset the screen resolution.
> I know about the CTRL ALT +,- option, but I want to
> completely reset the number of colors. The mouseconfig
> takes you back to the part of the setup for the mouse. Am
> I looking for something similar for the screen settings?
> Any help is welcome.

The issue of color depth in the X-window server is well articulated in
this source available online:

http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/maddin_bpp.html

Stipulate a fixed color depth by editing the relevant section of
the XF86Config file.

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by **David Pac** » Sat, 07 Aug 1999 04:00:00

> I am trying to discover how to reset the screen resolution.
> I know about the CTRL ALT +,- option, but I want to
> completely reset the number of colors. The mouseconfig
> takes you back to the part of the setup for the mouse. Am
> I looking for something similar for the screen settings?
> Any help is welcome.

> Thanks,
> John Brashier

Xconfigurator
and XF86Setup
are used for this.

But, I found the best success
editing /etc/XF86Config directly.

Section "Screen"
needs a line (four lines down):

DefaultColourDepth 16

to indicate the number of colours.

David Pace

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by **Vince Veselosk** » Mon, 09 Aug 1999 04:00:00

>> I am trying to discover how to reset the screen resolution.
>> I know about the CTRL ALT +,- option, but I want to
>> completely reset the number of colors. The mouseconfig
>> takes you back to the part of the setup for the mouse. Am
>> I looking for something similar for the screen settings?
>> Any help is welcome.

>> Thanks,
>> John Brashier

> Xconfigurator
> and XF86Setup
> are used for this.

> But, I found the best success
> editing /etc/XF86Config directly.

> Section "Screen"
> needs a line (four lines down):

> DefaultColourDepth 16

> to indicate the number of colours.

> David Pace

> --
> Free commodity/stock graphing software
> and Linux links at http://www.daveware.com

Also, if you just want to change it for this session without changing
the defaults, you can pass it as a parameter to the X server:

startx -- -bpp 16

Vince V.

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