[ale] X in 16 or 32bpp?

[Chris Hamilton]

> I finally got XFree86 working on my AST laptop.  My problem now is that
> it's running at 800x600 (I can live with that) at 8bpp color (256) which
> is sad.  How would I try and force it to 16?  I've modified my XF86Config
> file to add a 16bpp section, but can't get it to use it.  Anyone got
> any ideas?  My video adapter is 2Meg.

$ startx -- -bpp 24

Since startx is merely a shell script, you could also add the options
there, but I'm not sure where. Accelerated X uses a menu based config.
Regardless, the aforementioned command will work from command-line.

:wq

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