From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 9: 8:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29FC937B42C for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:08:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA49128 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:08:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <200009121608.MAA49128@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: running 8-bit depth in a 32-bit display To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:08:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've recently rediscovered the joy of Doom (yes, work *is* slow). My only complaint is, I have to exit X and restart in 8-bit depth to play. I know you can't dynamically change color depth in X. Can you somehow run an app expecting only 8-bit depth in a 32-bit display? Doom and the SimCity demo both require 8 bit displays. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message