How to set colour depth?

[mingle]

Hi,

I performed a clean install of Kubuntu 7.10 on my Compaq Evo D510 desktop box and all appears well.

However, I've noticed one thing: it looks like the desktop/display is only 16-bit colour, rather than the 32-bit that my GFX chipset is capable of.

I've tried looking in the display settings, but can't see any option to change the colour depth...

The built-in GFX chipset is the Intel 82845g and I'm connected to a HP 1530 15" LCD (native res 1024x768) monitor.

Cheers,

Mike.

[Fintan]

Re: How to set colour depth?

AFIK the max depth xorg will go is 24. I may be wrong and will be corrected if I am You can edit that in the /etc/x11/xorg.config file as root (kdesudo or kdesu kate).

This is what the relevant part of my xorg.config loks like:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1280x1024"
EndSubSection
EndSection