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Re: Netscape and colors

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Wed Nov 6 00:20:20 1996

Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 00:17:56 -0500
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961105225454.19A-100000@Dragon.Zmall.Com>
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Mark Lin writes:
 > On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote:
 > 
 > > I just confirmed on my system what others have said again and again
 > > about Netscape-3.0 and allocation of colors. 
 > > 
 > > I have a Matrox Millenium, 4 MB RAM, running Accelerated-X and the card can
 > > support 16 million colors at 1200x1024, perhaps more.  When I bring up
 > > other applications and no Netscape, I can run many, many windows with no
 > > degradation of colors, resolution at all. 
 > 
 > Are you sure you are running at 24 bit?  I'm using the same card with
 > Accelerated-X at 1280x1024 with no color problems.
 > 
 > What does "xdpyinfo" give you?
Well, here is the output of xdpyinfo. 
What do you make of it?

name of display:    :0.0
version number:    11.0
vendor string:    X Inside Inc.
vendor release number:    1302
maximum request size:  4194300 bytes
motion buffer size:  0
bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order:    LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats:    6
supported pixmap formats:
    depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
    depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
    depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
    depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
    depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
    depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
keycode range:    minimum 8, maximum 167
focus:  window 0x180000d, revert to Parent
number of extensions:    14
    BIG-REQUESTS
    DEC-XTRAP
    MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
    MIT-SHM
    MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
    Multi-Buffering
    SHAPE
    X3D-PEX
    XI-ShmLink
    XIE
    XIdle
    XTEST
    XTestExtension1
    XsightExtension
default screen number:    0
number of screens:    1

screen #0:
  dimensions:    1024x768 pixels (346x260 millimeters)
  resolution:    75x75 dots per inch
  depths (2):    1, 8
  root window id:    0x28
  depth of root window:    8 planes
  number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 1
  default colormap:    0x26
  default number of colormap cells:    256
  preallocated pixels:    black 0, white 1
  options:    backing-store YES, save-unders YES
  largest cursor:    64x64
  current input event mask:    0x50003d
    KeyPressMask             ButtonPressMask          ButtonReleaseMask        
    EnterWindowMask          LeaveWindowMask          SubstructureRedirectMask 
    PropertyChangeMask       
  number of visuals:    6
  default visual id:  0x20
  visual:
    visual id:    0x20
    class:    PseudoColor
    depth:    8 planes
    available colormap entries:    256
    red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  visual:
    visual id:    0x21
    class:    GrayScale
    depth:    8 planes
    available colormap entries:    256
    red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  visual:
    visual id:    0x22
    class:    StaticColor
    depth:    8 planes
    available colormap entries:    256
    red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  visual:
    visual id:    0x23
    class:    StaticGray
    depth:    8 planes
    available colormap entries:    256
    red, green, blue masks:    0x0, 0x0, 0x0
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  visual:
    visual id:    0x24
    class:    TrueColor
    depth:    8 planes
    available colormap entries:    8 per subfield
    red, green, blue masks:    0xe0, 0x1c, 0x3
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits
  visual:
    visual id:    0x25
    class:    DirectColor
    depth:    8 planes
    available colormap entries:    8 per subfield
    red, green, blue masks:    0xe0, 0x1c, 0x3
    significant bits in color specification:    8 bits


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