X-server and Windows display setting equivalent

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:10:26 +0530
Yagnesh Desai <ynd at lntenc.com> wrote:

> While if I change the  DefaultColorDepth to 32 from 24 the GUI won't start.
> 
> I do not know if these two display settings are equivalent or not. I want to check if there
> is any further scope of improvement in my display settings by modifying xorg.conf.

My understanding of this is that yes, 24 bit on Linux is equivalent to 32
bit on windows - the missing 8 bits are allocated to an alpha channel in
Linux if I remember correctly. So 24 is correct, and 32 won't work, as you
discovered :)

Peter