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Hi,

I'm having trouble getting a color depth of anything but 8 when I use xdm
(runlevel 5 in RedHat).  When I use startx --bpp 24 everything works fine (I
get the 24 bit color).  Where do I tell xdm to start me up with 24-bit (or
32 for that matter).  I'm using RedHat 5.0 with a Matrox Millenium II AGP
with 8MB video RAM.  I've got the resolution set to 1280x1024.  I'm also
using the Xsuse Matrox drivers.  32bit at 1280x1024 works under Windoze95.

Thanks,
  Marko

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Quote:> I'm having trouble getting a color depth of anything but 8 when I use xdm
> (runlevel 5 in RedHat).  When I use startx --bpp 24 everything works fine (I
> get the 24 bit color).  Where do I tell xdm to start me up with 24-bit (or
> 32 for that matter).

The file /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers is the one containing the command to
startup X. If you modify it to, say, X -bpp 32, then you'll have 32-bit
TrueColor. The default is having just X (8-bit Pseudo-Color).

Hope this helps

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