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09-02-2003, 03:42 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2
Posts: 36
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adjusting color depth in gentoo..
my current color depth for gentoo is very very low...... and i need to increase it, can any one tell me how..?
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09-02-2003, 04:46 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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color depth where? X? just edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the default ColorDepth option
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09-02-2003, 10:44 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Sparta, NC USA
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
Posts: 5,141
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You may have one or more of these tools to configure X:
XF86Setup
XFree86 -configure
Xconfigurator
xf86cfg
xf86config
xconf
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09-02-2003, 06:07 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2
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the problem is i dont see any thing about colordepth in the config...
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09-02-2003, 06:26 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Sparta, NC USA
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
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Hey! Add gentoo to your profile. You are confusing this poor old brain.
It's called "Depth", not colordepth. Red Hat uses /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, BTW, look in Section "Screen" for any config file that your distro uses:
Code:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "nVidia Corporation|NV11 [GeForce2 MX]"
Monitor "Gateway EV91"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Last edited by fancypiper; 09-02-2003 at 07:11 PM.
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09-02-2003, 06:49 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: gentoo
Posts: 21
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also, while you are in one of the xwindows, you can ctrl + alt + (NUMPAD)PLUS or MINUS key will adjust the setting.
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09-02-2003, 08:01 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2
Posts: 36
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hmm.. ctrl+alt+ plus or minus only seemed to change the res not the color depth... or something ..... O.o
here is my XF86config.new in /root:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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09-02-2003, 10:55 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2
Posts: 36
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nvm, :P i changed it in the right config now, now im just trying to get it to work with the nvidia driver i just installed and not nv, but its not going so well...
i get this error:
(ww) Nvidia: Chipset "GeForce4 MX 440" in device section "card0" isn't valid for this driver
(EE) No devices detected
but when i change Drvier="nvidia" back to driver="nv" it works again :\
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