Re: [tbox-l] color depth and backgrounds

[Timothy J. B. <tj...@st...>]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Timothy J. Bogart wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 mcn...@au... wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the quick input!  This has gotten me so wrapped around the axel
> I couldn't think of a clean test like the one you described.  The end
> result is
> 
> any attemp to specify a depth of 16 or 24 results in the Xserver reporting
> it doesn't support the color depth, and it fails to start.
> 
> not specifying the depth, and using my standard exec gnome-session stuff,
> the Xserver starts, then fails
> 
> using the standard system xinitrc, and xinit brings up the familiar old
> Motif stuff
> 
> CDE works fine.
> 
> And in the last two instances, the Xserver reports screen #0 as having 3
> modes (8, 16, 24).
> 
> I can't find much sensible in this. 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 

Oh yeah, I am talking to myself now.  8-(

Just to be clear, if I specify a depth of 8 I can manually start the
Xserver fine.

If I configure thru smit for a 1600x1280 screen - and hence I don't have
enough memory to display more that 256 colors, it works.  In fact it is
quite breathtaking, and I would be using that mode except for my high
color requirement.

I just don't get what funny specifics there would be for high colors on a
GXT255P.......

Thanks!

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