Re: X4 vs X3.3.6 on Upgrade

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On 06-Oct-00 Hal Burgiss wrote:
> Thanks. Actually I just got through doing this, pretty much as you
> outline. X4 is running fine. One problemo though: I can't get out of
> 8bpp. It was 16bpp beforehand. I've changed about everything I can
> think of in XF86Config to no avail. Trying to sort out gdm now, as to
> where this option (and -dpi 100) can get passed to the X server. xdm
> does it in Xservers, and it looks like maybe gdm calls this same file.
> But it is still a no go. Any ideas on this? 8bpp pretty much sucks.
> 
> -- 
> Hal B
>  hal@foobox.net
>  hal@burgiss.net
>  hburgiss@bellsouth.net
Have you inserted a Default Color Depth line as in the section below:

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "svga"
    # Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
    #Device      "Generic VGA"
    Device      "Stealth II S220"
    DefaultColorDepth 16
    Monitor     "MaxTech"
   Subsection "Display"
       Depth       24
       # Omit the Modes line for the "Generic VGA" device
       Modes       "1280x1024" "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768"
       ViewPort    0 0
       # Use Virtual 320 200 for Generic VGA
   EndSubsection

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