[1375] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Metro-X unstable and buggy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jos Vos)
Mon Oct 28 05:23:58 1996
From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 11:21:59 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961028012029.17744F-100000@localhost> from "Bryan Feir" at Oct 28, 96 01:26:24 am
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> > 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.
Could you point me to some more information about the 24bpp support
in the newer XFree86 (beta) releases? I couldn't find anything in
their release notes. Will it work for the Diamond Stealth 64 4 MB
(S3 964, not the 968 "video model")? I'm now sticked to 1152x864 :-(
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