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Revan

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Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 2:14am

Color depth

Hi, I don't know if this is right forum to post this problem on so excuse me for my edequitte. I'm new to Gentoo Linux and KDE. I've emerged wine since I'm dual booting with Windoze. The only reason I use windows is for my video editing software. I've run one of my progams and a message comes up saying I need 32-bit color depth. I've searched around and found that I can change xorg.conf. I did so, since the color depth was only 24-bit(I'm using an Nvidia card). Being a past Windows user I rebooted. Instead of KDE loading I find myself at a screen that says user login:. This means the GUI doesn't want to load. I did a 'sudo nano /ect/x11/xorg.conf/' and managed to set the color depth back to 24-bit. When I restarted the GUI came up.

So, I either have a problem with wine, or the GUI, or something in the system doesn't like me switching the color depth. I'm sure the KDE guros can help me out.

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Revan

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Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 4:20pm

Re: Color depth

Look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and ~/.xsession-errors when your GUI doesn't start. Search for EE to find out why it doesn't start. For example your monitor may not support the combination of color depth and resolution you are trying to use. Based on what you find, edit xorg.conf to make X11 use different settings. If that doesn't help, post relevant sections of the logs and config files.