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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