[ale] Color depth in X

Vernard Martin vernard at cc.gatech.edu
Tue May 21 01:24:28 EDT 1996


> My video card can support 1024x768 @ 16 bit color, but I can only convince
> X to run in 8-bit color mode. How do I control my color depth in X ?

The easiest way is to add aline that says "Depth 16" to the screen section
where you declare all the different resolutions that will work.  Right
before the "modes" section works nicely.

I'm running 1152x900x16bpp and its very nice. 'course lots of X apps don't
understand that color depth. Arena being one...

V
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Vernard Martin
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College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332






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