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Re: Metro-X unstable and buggy

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Feir)
Mon Oct 28 01:27:58 1996

Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 01:26:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Bryan Feir <jenora@istar.ca>
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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Anthony Martin wrote:

> One of the big things for me that is missing from Metro-X and XFree is
> support for 24bpp displays (they only have 32bpp).  This keeps me from
> running TrueColor at 1280x1024 w/4MB.

   Well, 24bpp was included in the baseline code for XFree86 3.1.2F, 
though it might not be enabled in all servers.  3.2 should be out in a 
couple of weeks, if that, and will have it as well.

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