[plug] X problem?

[Christian]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:43:16AM +0000, Kevin Shackleton wrote:
 
> 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

How about 'startx -- -depth 32'?  That is given as an example in my
startx manual page.

> 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?

Adding 'DefaultColorDepth 32' into the Display section has always worked
for me.  Not sure about the new XFree86 4.