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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,

Add this line 'ColorDefaultDepth 32' in /etc/XF86Config file.

Regards,
Doug.