Re: [PLUG] X server bpp 8

[Kevin Brosius <kbrosius@kns.com>]

Which leads me back to the original problem.  rdesktop seems confused
about the local server depth, or is not referring to the local server. 
I suggest you ask them what's going on.

I didn't see anyone mention 'telinit' in this thread.  On distros I've
used, 'telinit 3' switches to runlevel 3 (when called as root.)  You can
switch between runlevels easily this way, shutting down your xdm and
restarting it when you are done.

-- 
Kevin Brosius


"W. Chris Shank" wrote:
> 
> Yes, I did all this. I changed the depth and changed run level so i
> could test X. It actually didn't help rdesktop any - i increased the
> color depth but rdesktop message still comes up as 8 bpp. i was just
> hoping someone could tell me how i could edit however X autostarts. I
> guess it's unnecessary if my default color depth is setin the config
> file.
> 
> Maybe i should be going down with the color depth instead of up? But I'm
> pretty sure I was 16 bpp originally.
> 
> On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:43, Brian Epstein wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> >
> > > Yes I know that -however my system (redhat based) automatically launches
> > > into X - so I need to make this change where ever that is happening -
> > > which I haven't been able to figure out.
> >
> > Didn't read the whole thread, sorry if I'm misinterpretting.  You can
> > change your default colormap for X in /etc/X11/XF86Config.  Look for the
> > "DefaultDepth" config line and change it to whatever you want.
> >
> > Also, you can boot into runlevel 3 (change initdefault line in
> > /etc/inittab from "5" to "3").  Then you can use "startx" to start X
> > windows when you want to (mimicking Dos/Win 3.1).
> >
> > You can then reverse engineer the startx script if you want.
> >
> > ep
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