What does the # of supported visuals depend on?
Hi!
I am currently porting my program from an SGI to a DEC Ultrix and a
PC Linux system. The biggest problem (besides byte swapping stuff)
is the number of supported visuals. On the SGI I can chooes between
lots of different truecolor, directcolor and pseudocolor visuals.
The same on the DEC (with smaller colormaps however :-[ ), but on
my Linux box with XFree running in 16bpp mode I only have _one_
truecolor visual. If I start X with 8bpp I get some more, but then
the truecolor visuals look really ugly.
So, I am really wondering:
What does the number of supported visuals depend on?
And why is there no pseudocolor visual in 16bpp?
Any help or pointer is appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Andy.
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