I can''t seem to get X to start with a bpp greater than 8 If I comment out all the sections of display but the 16 bpp one, nvidia drivers complain about not finding an 8/8 depth/fbpp display subsection Im running X 4.3.0-r2 with GNOME 2.2 and the latest nvidia drivers thanks for the help

perhaps if you could post your XF86Config file... I think that you may not have the default depth set above 8 bits, and that could be the problem...

I use the nvidia drivers and if u want i can post my XF86Config-4 which works no problem.

that could be beneficial, I just want to see if my assumption is right, because it should be something similar to this:

Section "Screen"	Identifier "Screen0"	Device     "Card0"	Monitor    "Monitor0"	DefaultDepth     16	SubSection "Display"		Depth     1	EndSubSection	SubSection "Display"		Depth     4	EndSubSection	SubSection "Display"		Depth     8	EndSubSection	SubSection "Display"		Depth     15	EndSubSection	SubSection "Display"		Depth     16		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "1600x1200"	EndSubSection	SubSection "Display"		Depth     24	EndSubSectionEndSection 

depending on what resolutions you want to run at 16 bits for example...