Re: Running Gnome / helixcode in greater than 8bpp

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, _Thomas wrote:

> Being fairly new to linux, and especially suse ... I'm having issues
> running gdm in greater than 8bpp.  I can run startx --bpp -32 and
> that'll run fine ... 24bit I think .. but of course .. that doesnt start
> gdm ...

If you want to use gdm, just turn gdm on like normal, and edit
/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf's servers section to have stuff like the following:

[servers]
0=/usr/bin/X11/X -bpp 32

-- Elliot
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