Re: FVWM: Re: Colormap issues

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 19:04:58 -0400

Tim Freedom <tim_freedom_at_yahoo.com> writes:
> On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 18:03:56 -0400 "Dan Espen" wrote:
> > Tim Freedom writes:
> >
> > > Here's the output of 'xdpyinfo'
> > >
> > > screen #0:
> > > depths (3): 1, 8, 24
> > > depth of root window: 8 planes
> > ...
> > > I believe I have a raptor graphics card that is supposed to support
> > > alot more than 256 colors, anyone know how to alter this setting
> > > (or to verify that I'm capable of that) ?
> >
> > xdpyinfo says your card can do three depths, b/w, 8 bit pseudocolor,
> > and 24 bit truecolor. The default however is 8 bit.
> >
> > How you change this depends on your X server.
> >
> > On a Sun, there are a few different commands, depending on your
> > hardware, one of them is m64config, the man page may help.
> >
> > On Linux, look at your XF86Config file, it should be easy to spot
> > what needs changing, or use one of the GUIs supplied.
>
> OK, after some digging I figured out that the video card on the Sun-Ultras
> here is set to 8+24 depth (that is 8 __and__ 24 bit) -- in other words its
> 24-bit enabled, but is capable of showing 8-bit only applications (in case
> those applications check, I guess).

Gee, pretty neat video card.
I don't have any experience with it.
>From the fvwm man page, it looks like you might be able
to use either the -visual or -visualId argument to force fvwm to
use a specific visual.

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Dan Espen                           E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
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