Changing colour depth without leaving X?

[Bradmont2]

Anybody know of a way to change colour depth in X without altering the XF86Config file or closing X?

[ 28 April 2001: Message edited by: Bradmont ]

[DMR]

*shameless bump for someone else*

AFAIK, no.

[TaeShadow]

Well, Mandrake is able to do it without leaving X, so there's got to be a way.

[DMR]

TaeShadow,

How is it done? I'm running RH 6.2,and couldn't find a way to make it happen- ideas?

[Bradmont2]

^Bump^

Anybody have any ideas?

[foo_bar]

I do not believe it is possible to change the color depth without exiting. (At least in XFree 3.x)

Maybe 4.x has that feature...

TaeShadow: What tool is used in Mandrake to do that? Maybe we can figure it out from that.