Re: openwin color depth config question
Francisco Rojas (rojas@hyperion.ece.arizona.edu)
Mon, 19 Mar 2001 13:04:55 -0700 (MST)
You need to first start the Xserver in 24 bit mode and be sure that you
have a 24bit video card. To start the xserver you need to create .xinitrc
file and somewhere in there you need the commands
openwin -dev /dev/fb0 (whatever you buffer is) defclass TrueColor defdepth
24
afterstep &
xterm -C &
etc...
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Fred Henning wrote:
> I'm running as 1.8 on sparc (solaris 2.8)--I don't have root perms, so I
> had to install and point to a different path for the program install, but
> I got everything (i think ) installed and running--
>
> However, I can't get as to start at anything greater than 8bpp...I remember
> back in the day when I had as installed on Linux, that you could force the
> Xserver to start at other color depths when doing xinit
> --(colordepth)...But I'm having to go through openwin (I don't think that I
> have any other options...) so I was wondering this dumn question: how can
> I force openwin to open in > 8bpp?
>
> I can run fvwm95 and get .jpeg backgrounds in full colordepth, so I'm
> assuming that I should be able to get greater colordepths (and I can get
> a picture viewer up to view jpeg, etc...) OTOH, the docs on Xsun don't
> really say--they just say that Xsun24 supports 24bpp...But since anything
> but CDE is unsupported officially, I haven't really been able to find
> from our IT guys. Also, I noticed a little file called 24to8 in the
> X/bin directory, so mebbe I'm just being spoofed anyways.
>
> Anyway, to cut off this long story, is there a switch to force the
> colordepth, or am I SOL?
>
> TIA,
> fred
> fred.henning@brokat.com
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