[2909] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Netscape and colors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Klaren)
Wed Nov 6 01:41:49 1996
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:40:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Jon Klaren <jklaren@qualcomm.com>
To: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote:
> 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?
[xdypinfo deleted]
> 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
Well, what I make of this is that your default visual (0x20) is
PseudoColor(i.e. 8-bit). Run Xsetup and change this to TrueColor.
Even though you've selected 65k or 16.7M colors, it don't matter if you
don't change the visual type. I run the Matrox Millenium 4MB with AccelX
1.2 and have used it in 16 and 24 bpp mode with no color problems, and I
use netscape a lot.
-Jon
Jon Klaren
San Diego, CA USA
jklaren@qualcomm.com
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