Default Colour Depth in XF86Config-4

[Daniel Stone]

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 17:53 +1300, Bill Christiansen wrote:
> One question I've been meaning to ask that I got reminded of when I
> did another laptop install of Warty today is why Ubuntu uses 24 bit as
> the default colour depth when a large number of laptop LCD displays
> only support 16 bit? This results in the image being too small to fill
> the LCD screen and the only way to fix it is to manually edit the
> XF86Config-4 as the configuration script allows you to select
> resolutions but not colour depth.

Which laptops have you come across that only support a 16-bit colour
depth?  If you could provide the names of the laptops and what sort of
video chipset they were using, I'd be very much obliged.  Thanks.