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On Wed, 03 Dec 1997 17:29:51 -0800, Joseph Malicki
<jmalicki@geocities.com> wrote: 
>Pranab Nag wrote:
>> I cannot get my clgd5424 to display more than 256 colors. Could you
>> please share your secret of getting millions of colors. May be this is
>> well known. Can you point me to the right document for this?
>
> Well, by default XFree starts any Xserver in 256-color-mode.  I ran a 5428, but
>only had enough vidmem for 16-bit color, but really, I see no reason to run at
>higher color depths except for professional graphics work (i can't even notice the
>difference).  It depends how much video memory you have, but if you have enough,
>put a file in your home directory called .xserverrc that contains only

>X :0 --bpp 16
>for 16-bit color or
>X :0 --bpp 32

That should be "-bpp" and not "--bpp"

The reason for confusion is probably the fact that another way of getting
this to happen from one's command prompt is:

% startx -- -bpp 16
or 
% startx -- -bpp 24
or
% startx -- -bpp 32

I am led to believe that you can also control this from the
/etc/X11/XF86Config file by setting a default resolution there. 

This displays nicely one of the things that is unfortunate about X; not
only is there "more than one way to do things," there are *so many ways
to do things that it's tough to explain why it does what it does.*

There are entirely too many places where configuration can get read
from... 
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