Ubuntu :: Karmic - How To Change The Color Depth
Mar 11, 2010
I am running Karmic Koala on a Dell Precision M90, and have some problems with my color depth, or at least that's what I believe. I have googled this problem numerous times, reading a lot about /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and have created numerous files in that location, with all manners of (probably) valid contents. I have yet to try invalid contents, in the hope that Linux is reading the file, and doing so would crash the system. This is my current xorg.conf, after many iterations:
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
[code]....
Now, is there some other place to change this? Should I sacrifice more virgins to Cthulhu, or is Hastur the one to ask in these situations?
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Oct 28, 2010
since I don't have a xorg.conf anymore (just wasn't installed ) I wonder how to change the color depth to 32.
I'm using the standard xserver-xorg-video-radeon driver.
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Oct 6, 2010
Ok I've tried editing xorg.conf, screen section which looks like this
Code:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
[code]...
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Aug 4, 2010
I want to change color depth, but there's no xorg.conf file to edit... what to do? btw, shouldn't there be a simple gui for that? Like for changing resolution
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Jul 20, 2010
I want to increase the color depth for my user account in kde. I cannot edit the configuration in /etc/X11. Is it possible?
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Apr 6, 2010
I've a laptop from 2001 with 512MB of RAM, and I was running Windows XP, and the laptop wasn't coping very well with the huge demands of the applications of today. It was only yesterday I installed Ubuntu alongside XP and I was surprised to see how fast everything was!
The only thing that's bugging me a bit is the screen. Some parts of the desktop shows some banding where there is meant to be a gradient, probably telling me to increase the color depth. Is there a way in Karmic Koala to change the color depth? I tried using sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf but when the editor shows up with the setting file, it's empty.
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Apr 12, 2010
Basically I've just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on an old Acer Aspire 3000 laptop. When I first did the install I observed that the screen color depth was very low so after browsing the forums I ran the latest updates and then everything was perfect.
However after a restart the color depth reverted back to low. I created an xorg.conf file and set the default depth to 24. However no luck. I then set the color depth to 16 in this file and restarted. This time it switched to the 16 bit color depth, however after a restart again it all reverted back! I tried changing the value again but it is now stuck at the low color depth again.
The driver I am using is the updated SIS driver that was provided from Ubuntu for the onboard 661 SIS video card.
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Dec 29, 2010
I am trying to create a media server, and I decided to try out Ubuntu, but I'm having trouble figuring this out. I have taken a suggestion that I got from another forum, but it did not work.
I'm using version 10.4 and I have to get it to at least 24 bit so I can run XBMC. I have a friend that works for red hat and he said I needed to find the restricted driver or something, but I can't find it, and he doesn't know where it might be on Ubuntu. So, does anyone know how I can change my color depth to 24bit?
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May 5, 2011
I've been "on vacation" using gnu/linux since koala 9.10. Now after come back in, I realize that there is no xorg.conf file in ubuntu maverick 10.10. But we can create it however.
My lab is now using onboard vga, intel G41 Express, 32 MB dedicated, 782 shared memory (I have no clue about this )
I recently using compiz in 16 bit color depth, and it run pretty smooth. After enabling /etc/X11/xorg.conf and changing/adding Defaultdepth to 24. I can't use compiz again. My goal is to set compiz for 32 bit color depth
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Jun 22, 2010
Just installed 32 bit Lenny 5 in virtual box, a software computer, and virtualbox say that it wants the color depth changed from 24 to 32. Tried manually changing xorg.conf but then X would not start saying: 32 depth was inconsistent with 000 weight.
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Nov 15, 2010
I have looked around and haven't had a lot of luck finding any information on this. I could be blind...but I'm not sure, haha.
I do a lot of remote support for my clients (I do PC repairs and training). I have recently starting suggesting to some of my basic users that they give Ubuntu a try. So far it has been very well received and they are loving it. The problem I am running into is that some of them use laptops in multiple places, and some use routers that are not easily configured. In each case it makes port forwarding a large pain in the behind to allow for remote access.
I have started using the X11vnc reverse connection and it has been working well, except for the fact that it is using high quality color depth (24bit I think?). I know when starting the connection from my end I can set the color depth, but is there any way to set the depth of a reverse connection?
Also, I understand that using just vnc over the Internet is not secure. I need to look into a decent guide to set up SSH tunneling for this. I don't suppose anyone knows of a good guide for 10.04 and 10.10?
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Apr 5, 2011
1. Identify what my current color depth setting are? (default opensuse 11.4 KDE install)
2. How do I change it? Am assuming it is set to 32bit now, would like to set it to 24.
The reason is my little netbook really burns up when i play a video.. acer aspire one and one of the reason why I installed linux over windows 7 was that I wanted my laptop to run faster ... apart from the fact that I would have installed suse anyways!!
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Mar 13, 2011
Problem appears every time I leave my computer for a while and my screen turns off because of inactivity. Then after screen starts again, my desktop looks like it lost color depth. I can see wallpaper that consists of big blocks of color tones instead of being smooth. Temporary I had to disable blank screen during inactivity in Power management settings. I have installed:
Ubuntu 10.10 x86_64
kernel 2.6.35-27-generic
GNOME 2.32.0
My graphics card:
ATI Radeon HD 5470 512MB
ATI/AMD FGLRX driver installed
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Oct 29, 2010
I've been desperate to successfully install Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire 1714SMi (old and huge, I know), but the display suffers from a greatly reduced color range, strange white haze/ fine vertical lines and virtually ilegible text. I took a screen shot as I know it's hard to describe these things, but it looks normal on the image! The Graphics Driver is nVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 128MB. The display is perfect on XP.
I downloaded some NVidia Drivers for Linux from nVidia & from here: [URL] Can't get any of them to work, and I find it hard to believe it's so difficult to get a basic display to work. I'm about to give up.
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Mar 21, 2010
I want to try running Red Alert 2 with 16 bit depth, but I don't know where to change it... All I found is about editing a .conf file in /etc/X11/ or something like that, but I don't have a file like that, if I try to launch gedit through terminal, it's just blank.
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Apr 4, 2010
I have lubuntu 10.04 beta1 and the screen depth is really low (don't know the exact)? I used to go to xorg.conf but it doesn't have one and I am completely lost. How do I do this?
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Mar 2, 2010
Once I change the Xserver.org file ,The Xserver will fail to restart.
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Oct 23, 2010
I changed it and got it working a long time ago but i installed 10.10 (great work BTW ) and have forgotten completely.
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