How to run HiColor in X?

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From: Scott Yang
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:00

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	Sorry for this newbie question... I used ET4000/W32p before, and
has been running XFree86 in 8 bit colour since I know 16/32 bpp is not
available for ET4000. Just recently, I changed to a Diamond Stealth 64
with S3 Trio64 chip. When I tried 'startx -bpp 16', X still starts with 8
bit colour. Where did I do wrong? Is there anything I need to set in
/etc/XF86CONFIG? Is my parameter to 'startx' incorrect? Or maybe X does
not support HiColor for Diamond cards?

	Thanks for any advise.

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