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Hi everyone.

  I'm using an STP Trio32 card that is accelerated.  My default bpp was
  somehow set to 8, and I want to run 16 and/or 32.  
  The way I tried to accomplish this was to edit /usr/openwin/lib/Xinitrc
  and add a '-depth' to the part that starts a window manager.
  It looks like:

  # Startup the OpenLook window manager
  if [ ! -z "$WINDOWMANAGER" ]; then
  exec $WINDOWMANAGER -depth 16  <--added this.
  else
  exec $OPENWINHOME/bin/olwm
  fi

  When I started 'openwin', I didn't get any errors, but I don't think
  it used the 16bpp that I wanted.  Is there a way to tell what is
  being used?  

  Or perhaps someone knows of a better way to use these depths?

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| Katrina Head

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I think you want to tell the X server itself to go into 16 or 32 bpp mode.

startx -- -bpp 16

should work.

: Hi everyone.
:  
:   I'm using an STP Trio32 card that is accelerated.  My default bpp was
:   somehow set to 8, and I want to run 16 and/or 32.  
:   The way I tried to accomplish this was to edit /usr/openwin/lib/Xinitrc
:   and add a '-depth' to the part that starts a window manager.
:   It looks like:

:   # Startup the OpenLook window manager
:   if [ ! -z "$WINDOWMANAGER" ]; then
:   exec $WINDOWMANAGER -depth 16  <--added this.
:   else
:   exec $OPENWINHOME/bin/olwm
:   fi

:   When I started 'openwin', I didn't get any errors, but I don't think
:   it used the 16bpp that I wanted.  Is there a way to tell what is
:   being used?  

:   Or perhaps someone knows of a better way to use these depths?

: --
: | Katrina Head

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Quote:>Hi everyone.

>  I'm using an STP Trio32 card that is accelerated.  My default bpp was
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>  When I started 'openwin', I didn't get any errors, but I don't think
>  it used the 16bpp that I wanted.  Is there a way to tell what is
>  being used?  

        Try "startx >& $HOME/starx.log".

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