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hi. i now have XFree86 3.1.2G and i am futzing around trying to find the right settings for 16-bit-per-pixel mode. it occurs to me that LCD screens are so different than normal screens that i might be making some incorrect assumptions. for instance: the liturature on my 760EL claims that it does 16 bits per pixel. however, from what i know about how these screens work, i would expect the real bit depth to be a multiple of three. (that is, i don't think they use indexed color -- i think they just assign brightness values to the red, green and blue subpixels.) am i wrong about this? is the true depth really 15, or 18 or maybe only a measley 12 bits per pixel? i'm sure the X server would love to know, and so would i. and if that is the case, then is the video ram really as large as advertised? i read that i'm supposed to have 2 megs of vram, but i wonder if it's really all there. fyi, XFree86 version 3.1.2g finally fixes the weird video mode problems that prevented me from switching back and forth between text and graphics screens, and required me to hit the "switch to external screen" function key in order for the display to work. i am very pleased with it. -mykle-