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From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Subject: Re: Adjusting Color Depth in KDE????
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Mark.Hummel@hurlburt.af.mil said on May 22, 2000 at 10:58:17:
> Greetings,
> 
> I was able to increase the resolution of KDE to 1024 x 768 without virtual
> screen dimensions, but the color is only 256.  I know my hardware is capable
> of 64K at the same resolution, but how do I adjust that?
> 
> Mark

This is a function of your X server, not KDE.
If you're using startx to start your X server, try
 startx -- -bpp 16
If you're using xdm or something similar, edit the Xservers
file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm and change X to X -bpp 16
It will work only if your X server is configured correctly.


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