Re: Changing Creator3D depth settings in Solaris

["Sageev George" <sageev@bmsrs.usc.edu>]

Thanks for the answers, Jon and Ben:
I think Jon might be right (with his long
answer), because I do remember
running a program on a remote computer that
really looked like it was running with 24bpp,
even though my local applications looked
horrible.

I'm seeing the wacky behavior when I run
Outlook Express (for Solaris) and
Gnome/Sawfish.  Both look like they have
an 8 bit colormap.  I'll try playing with
my .Xdefaults or .Xresources file .. the
-defdepth and the -bpp tricks didn't work
with xinit.

-Sageev



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Leonard" <jleonard@slimy.com>
To: "Sageev George" <sageev@bmsrs.usc.edu>; <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Cc: "Jon Leonard" <jleonard@frost.slimy.com>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: Changing Creator3D depth settings in Solaris


> On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 03:51:14PM -0700, Sageev George wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Forgive the off-topic nature of this request, but
> > I've been trying to fairly compare Debian
> > and Solaris 8 on my Ultra 30.  The computer has
> > a Creator3D in it.  I was able to set the
> > bit depth to 24 bits in Debian without too
> > much trouble, but I have no idea how to change
> > my depth from 8 bits to 24 bits in Solaris.
>
> Short answer: -defdepth 24  (Or something similar; it's been years and
it'd
> be in the X server man page)
>
> The longer answer is that the Creator3D card and its relatives support
> multiple bit depths simultaneously, on a per-window basis.  It's selected
> in the WindowID planes.  A program that's aware of this can select the
> visual it wants, so you can run 24 bit programs even in the nominally
8-bit
> mode, and it works fine.  The only difference is in the order that the
> server presents the list of available visuals, so naive programs just take
> the first one in the list.  The decision to make the default 8 bit was
made
> because there was still at the time a wide variety of common programs that
> just assumed 8-bit displays, and misbehaved badly otherwise...
>
> Jon Leonard
>


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