[plug] X problem?

[Kevin Shackleton]

Mike Holland wrote:
> "colormap"!?  It sounds like you are running X in 8-bit (256 colour) mode.
> Do any cards use a 16-bit colour-map? Usually you have fixed colours.

Yep - you're right.  What I dope you feel when you've been running at
256 colours without realising!
 
> Try 'xdpyinfo' for gobs of info.

Gobs is right - it actually refers to planes - I have 24 now, of 256
colourmap cells.  Why not 32?

But what I can't figure out is why the system started in 8-bit instead
of 32 bit.  To get it up in 32 bit I actually passed an argument in
startx:
  startx -- -bpp 32

My XFConfig file "screen" section has three Display subsections, for 32,
16 and 8 bit depths, in that order.  Why should it pick the lowest
depth?

K.