[16158] in Athena Bugs
24 bpp X servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yoav Yerushalmi)
Thu Aug 13 22:02:51 1998
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 22:02:46 EDT
From: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
So, I've often asked "why aren't we running 24 bits X servers
even though the hardware can support it?" and often been
told that some software breaks on it.
Well, I figured, since I've been using 24 bit servers here
and have been running most of the popular Athena software, maybe
I should ask what exactly is broken?
8 bpp is of much poorer quality than 24, and I think it would be
a useful thing to have most of the machines running at 24. If it's
the case that there is software that breaks under 24, then we should
attempt to fix it, and for this purpose, it would be nice to have
a list of what software is known not to work in 24 bits.
If it turns out that it's some almost unused program in some almost
never seen locker, would it not be possible to have most or even
all machines run 24 bit (with a way to kick them into 8 bit to use
this program?)
The point is, I've used enough software that is much nicer in 24
and I know our machines can handle it. I've still not found anything
that breaks, but would like to fix anything that might (we can't stay
at 8 bit forever).
The mail went here because I'm not sure where it should actually go,
but it needs to go somewhere.
-- yoav
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