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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 17:29:57 +0000
From: Justin Ashworth <justin@structured.net>
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How would I go about changing the default bit depth in X?  I tried
changing the 8 to 16 in /etc/XF86Config but startx balked because it
couldn't find a definition for the default bit depth (8).

Any ideas will be gratefully appreciated...thanks!

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Justin Ashworth, justin@structured.net
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"Well, you can get away with mistakes as an engineer.
 You call it being creative."
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