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How to change colour depth to 16 with ATI video card driver in Ubuntu910

Asked by ayongying

Once I change the Xserver.org file ,The Xserver will fail to restart.
who can help me.

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ayongying (jying-jying) said : 		#1

sorry, Not Xserver.org file,it is xorg.conf file.
Sorry for the mistake.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Can you give a pastebin of th file please

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ayongying (jying-jying) said : 		#3

seems my linux driver couldn't support it.
(EE) fglrx(0): Given depth (16) is not supported by fglrx driver

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LEGOManiac (bzflaglegomaniac) said : 		#4

I have a couple of old games that I'm trying to run under wiine that complain that they need 16-bit colour depth to run.

I don't know how to either have wine run them with 16-bit colour (or lie to them) nor do I see any way to change my nVidia desktop settings to a different colour depth as can be done in Windows.

Assuming I can't do it via Wine, how do I do it in Ubuntu?