[877] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 16bpp screens
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johnie Stafford)
Fri Oct 25 09:52:38 1996
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 96 07:57 CDT
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CC: redhat-list@redhat.com, ylee@watsun.cc.columbia.edu,
m2hgnkuebb.fsf@wydo125.wustl.edu, ats@wydo125.wustl.edu
In-reply-to: <199610250936.FAA00736@kalgan.mit.edu> (message from Erik Nygren
on Fri, 25 Oct 1996 05:36:33 -0400)
From: jms@pobox.com (Johnie Stafford)
Reply-To: jms@pobox.com
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>>> On Fri, 25 Oct 1996 05:36:33 -0400, Erik Nygren <nygren@mit.edu> said:
>> Alan Shutko <ats@wydo125.wustl.edu> says:
>> > Try doing an xdpyinfo and looking for the visuals supported. As far
>> > as I've seen (and I don't have a 16-bit capable server myself), when
>> > in 16bpp mode, the X servers _only_ support that single visual.
>> > Thus, you can't run in other visuals. (One reason that so many
>> > programs break on 16bpp screens....)
>>
>> Interesting. Does this mean X servers in the future may support
>> multiple visuals under 16-bit mode?
en> Almost definitely not. The only PC video card to support
en> this feature is the ET-6000 and getting that feature
en> to work with X would probably be a horrible pain.
en> For all other video cards, there's really no way to
en> do it. (Well, you might be able to fake a 8 bpp visual, but
en> that probably wouldn't give acceptable performance).
If it would keep 8bit apps from core dumping, it might be worth it.
Johnie
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