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  From: Benjamin Close <linux@senet.com.au>
  To  : Dale Hopkins <gdnroger@powercom.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 20:15:21 +1030 (CST)

Re: color depth

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Dale Hopkins wrote:

> Hello
>          I am a newbie to linux have only had it up and running for the
> last month.  Have most thing configured. (hope)  Iam using Red Hat 5.2.
> I am having problem changing my color depth from 8 bpp to 16/24 bpp.
> The command  "startx --bpp 16" & "startx --bpp 24" do not work.  Does
> anyone
> have any ideas around how I can fix this.  If I use Xconfigurator to do
> this I can get the color depth
> I want but then the mouse plays up and wants to go to the top righthand
> corner and open menus.

You must pass it as a server command rather than a client command.
ie: startx -- -bpp 16

Cheers,
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* Benjamin Close
* Benjsc@senet.com.au
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