XFree Configure Problem

[Jorge]

Hi I am stuck in 8 bpp when I need to be in 32 bpp! This happened to me a long time ago and I fixed it. It was something VERY simple but, I can not figure out what I did last time to the configuration file in /etc/X11. Please any help is welcome! Thanks in advance.

[r@nd0m @cce$]

Originally posted by Jorge:
Hi I am stuck in 8 bpp when I need to be in 32 bpp! This happened to me a long time ago and I fixed it. It was something VERY simple but, I can not figure out what I did last time to the configuration file in /etc/X11. Please any help is welcome! Thanks in advance.


You forgot to mention what distro you're running as well as the version.
Let me know, and I may be able to help you.

[Jorge]

I run Debian 2.2 but, I just solved the problem kind of. This is not the same fix I used last time but, it works. I forgot to just 'man startx' and I placed startx -- -bpp 32 as an alias startx='startx -- -bpp 32' and I am now in 32 bpp! Thanks for your FAST reply.

[Aikidoka]

That works Jorge. Also you can go into XF86Config in the Screen section and add this line: DefaultDepth 32. It should look like this.

Section "Screen"
Indentifier Screen1
Device blahblahblah
Monitor blahblahblah
-> DefaultDepth 32
Subsection ...

That'll do the same thing.