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    I was wondering if someone can let me know how to set the default colour
Depth in Linux RH5.1.  When I fire up 'startx', I always get 8bpp.

   Is there a way to make this permanent?

Cheers

Gary

In your /etc/X11/XF86Config file, Section "Screen" for the server you
are using.  Here is a snippet of mine...

---------------------------------------------------------------
Section "Screen"
    Driver      "accel"
    Device      "My Video Card"
    Monitor     "NEC Multisync XE15"
    DefaultColorDepth 16

    <-- Part of file omitted -->

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0
        Virtual     1024 768
    EndSubsection

    <-- Part of file omitted -->
---------------------------------------------------------------

Note the "DefaultColorDepth" line...

             Al

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Quote:>     I was wondering if someone can let me know how to set the default colour
> Depth in Linux RH5.1.  When I fire up 'startx', I always get 8bpp.

>    Is there a way to make this permanent?

Easiest way:

login as root (or su)

cd /etc
echo "alias x='startx -- -bpp 16 & exit'" >> bashrc

logout, log in as your ordinary user and now you can just type 'x' to
start X in 16 bpp. (it also logs you out from the VC you issued the
command from, so you can remove the '& exit' part if you don't want
that to happen).

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 >    I was wondering if someone can let me know how to set the default colour
 >Depth in Linux RH5.1.  When I fire up 'startx', I always get 8bpp.
 >
In /etc/X11/XF86Config, find the appropriate Screen section and add
the declaration DefaultColorDepth 8/16/32 before the Subsections.
Otherwise, it's the depth of the *first* subsection that's treated as
the default depth.

Bob T.

 >
 >>     I was wondering if someone can let me know how to set the default colour
 >> Depth in Linux RH5.1.  When I fire up 'startx', I always get 8bpp.
 >>
 >Easiest way:
 >
 >login as root (or su)
 >
 >cd /etc
 >echo "alias x='startx -- -bpp 16 & exit'" >> bashrc
 >
 >logout, log in as your ordinary user and now you can just type 'x' to
 >start X in 16 bpp.

This will only affect users using bash as their shell.  It really
should be done by each user in their own shell-initialization file(s)
such as $HOME/.bashrc.

Bob T.

Although it seem that you can override this by putting

 exec X :0 -bpp 32

(or whatever) in the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc. Or each
user can put something similar in their ~/.xserverrc file if they want
to overide the system-wide default.

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In the screen subsection of your card in XF86Config put in

DefaultColorDepth 16

Dave Lambert
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer