how to change the color depth in X

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2 total messages Started by Xylen Thu, 09 Mar 2000 00:00

#177

Author: Xylen
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 00:00

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I know my video card and monitor will support 16 bit color at 800x600.
In windoze I can view images and wallpaper with near photographic
quality. But with linux, all I get is pixellated color (256 colors) that
is nowhere near photo quality. I've checked my settings, and linux
'says' I am running 16 bit color, but I'm not really. What files do I
need to check to verify the settings? When I run an X-window, I can
choose several resolutions, but the color depth stays the same lousy low
quality. I'm running a S3Trio64V+ video card, could that be the problem?
i.e., is the S3 drivers not set up correctly? Don't ask me to change
video cards. I would love to do that, but on my POS, the video card is
part of the mother board.  :(


Xylen,

I can now set up and install Redhat in under 3 hours! I'm getting good
at the basic install.  :)

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Re: how to change the color depth in X

#182

Author: Adam Carheden
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 00:00

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Michael Dwyer wrote:
> Try this:
> $  X :1 -bpp 16

Okay, explain how this works again.  I've been wanting to run multiple
copies of X for a long time, but everything I've tried (including the
above) tells me that X is already running for Display 0.


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Adam Carheden
carheden@holly.ColoState.EDU

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