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Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 08:59:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
To: Keith Leonard <kleon@bellsouth.net>
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Subject: Re: Color Depth on X
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Use:

	startx -- -bpp 16

-- Jay

On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Keith Leonard wrote:

>Howdy
>
>a week or so ago I asked about problems with the resolution and color
>depth of Netscape and the answer came back that these areas were
>controlled by X. So I attempted to control X with startx and(all
>suggested):
>
>-bpp16
>-bpp 16
>16
>--bpp16
>-bpp32
>--bpp32
>32
>-bpp 32
>
>(yes XF86Config shows all three as possible depths with there respective
>window sizes)
>
>When I run 'xwininfo' the color depth is always 8 (no matter what window
>I click on), the images are just as grainy and the colors start going
>crazy very quickly (which would seem to me -a total X newbie - to
>indicate low color depth ie. 8 ).
>
>Can anyone give me a clear idea of what I need to do to increase the
>color depth. I'm using a Cirrus 5434 video chip with 1 meg of ram.
>
>Please no ' flib the dwerble with a pinny and then drib the wilden'
>answers - I really don't have a clue on X.
>
>Thanks in Advance
>
>-- 
>Keith
>-------------------------------------------------------
>Keith Leonard  -  kleon@bellsouth.net
>Webmaster - http://www.rexart.com - Rex Art Supplies
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>

-- Jay