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by **Richard Balfou** » Mon, 22 Feb 1999 04:00:00

Hello there,

I have Red Hat 5.2 installed on my system.
I can get X-Windows to run in 32-bpp by creating the following alias in

/etc/bashrc:

alias win="startx -- -bpp 32"

The problem is when I want to start Linux in runmode 5. It defaults to
an 8-bpp display.
How do I configure Linux to always start X-Windows in 32-bit color?

My graphics card is a Matrox Mystique 220 with 4MB.

Thanks,
Richard

by **Adrian Hand** » Mon, 22 Feb 1999 04:00:00

> The problem is when I want to start Linux in runmode 5. It defaults to
> an 8-bpp display.
> How do I configure Linux to always start X-Windows in 32-bit color?

Check your /etc/X11/XF86Config:

Section "Screen"
DefaultColorDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8

by **Laurent Bach** » Mon, 22 Feb 1999 04:00:00

In fact, startx is just a script doing initialisations for xinit. The last
line of startx is something like this (if I remember) :

xinit $(CLIENTOPT) -- $(SERVEROPT)

So, just change it in

xinit $(CLIENTOPT) -- -bpp 32 $(SERVEROPT)
(I do that thing, and it works fine).

Laurent Bacha

Richard Balfour a crit :

Quote:> Hello there,

> I have Red Hat 5.2 installed on my system.
> I can get X-Windows to run in 32-bpp by creating the following alias in

> /etc/bashrc:

> alias win="startx -- -bpp 32"

> The problem is when I want to start Linux in runmode 5. It defaults to
> an 8-bpp display.
> How do I configure Linux to always start X-Windows in 32-bit color?

> My graphics card is a Matrox Mystique 220 with 4MB.

> Thanks,
> Richard

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Starting X-Windows with 32-bpp

Starting X-Windows with 32-bpp

Starting X-Windows with 32-bpp

Starting X-Windows with 32-bpp