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Virtual PC and Linux Fedora

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by lazy.student

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i am using virtual PC from microsoft and have installed linux on it, but at the moment cant do anything because of what i believe is a problem with the colourdepth as the screen is all discoloured, but cannot figure out how to change the colourdepth using either the startx option or going through the command line process

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by techexec2

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This is a very common problem and you've got a lot of company. Virtual PC only supports 16-bit color (65 thousand). Fedora (and many other Linux distros) default to 24-bit color (16 million). Some distros have an easy way to specify a "safe mode" that reduces to 16-bit color to easily get around this. I don't know of any such thing in Fedora 6. But, this page explains what you need to do. You need to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file using the "nano" editor.

http://davidbrunelle.com/2006/09/23/installing-fedora-core-on-microsoft-virtual-pc-2004/

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