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From: Josh Lynch <tyme@visi.com>
To: Loren Schooley <rewa@flash.net>
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On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Loren Schooley wrote:

> I have a 4mb S3Virge vidio card, but I can't get any colors going.  I think
> I have like 16 colors in Netscape.
> I have 2.2.5 and to startx I type startx --24bpp, but still, the colors suck.
> How can I tweak up my x windows so I can get the bennies from my 4 meg card?
> Loren
> 

Try 'startx -- -bpp 8/16/24/32'  Pick one depth, obviously, and don't
include the slashes. Make sure you installed the right server too. The S3
virge server is different than the plain S3 server.

josh