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> Ian wrote:
> >
> > Enough colors, Im pretty sure. I can cycle 
> > through 3 modes using Ctrl Alt +
> 
> CTRL-ALT-+ cycles through your resolutions.
> It doesn't necessarily show different color depths.

Steven wrote
 
> There is probably a DefaultColorDepth statement in
> your /etc/XF86Config.  What does it say?

Oddly there isn't. So what I did was startx 2>/tmp/xlog
and I discovered from that that the X server is 
starting up with color depth 8.
So in startx , I changed xinit to "xinit -- -bpp 18"
Now Opera starts fine .. hooray!
xinit -- -bpp 24  also works but the text is a bit squashed.
Probably just needs a bit of tweaking.

Thank you very much Steven,  Your questions provided
the answers. 

Ian