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cutter-john
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jered@MIT.EDU)
Sat May 11 14:35:03 1996
From: jered@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 14:34:20 -0400
To: sipb-office@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
I've set the default X resolution on cutter-john (the new PC) to
1280x1024 at 8 bpp. Resolution-wise, this is the same as the SGI, and
slightly higher than the Suns. (Bit depth-wise, it's the same as all
but the SGIs.) And, it looks much nicer than 1024x768.
I'd like to see it running at 1152x900 at 32 bpp, however when I
use that bit depth, some of the fonts do not appear properly. This
points to some incompatibility of XFree with this video card; if
someone knows more about X and/or this video card, it'd be nice if they
could look at this.
Also, a number of X compatibility libraries have been installed so that
software works properly. (The right answer is to not dynamically link
against libXpm, however.)
--Jered
jered@mit.edu
