Michael C. Toren on 25 Jul 2005 05:28:10 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] X color depth


On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 11:40:30PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> More important, though, the config file it writes does not specify a
> color depth, and I am getting 15 or 16 bit color.  I want 24.  There's a
> gnome desktop widget for changing the screen resolution, but I don't see
> a way to change the color depth.  The fact that it isn't specified in
> the config file just makes it more confusing.

I'm also using a GeForce3 Ti 200, however my "screen" section has the
following additional line:

	Section "Screen"
		DefaultDepth    24
		# ...

Perhaps try adding the "DefaultDepth" line?  I also believe there's
an equivalent Xserver command line option to specify the depth.

-mct

-- 
perl -e'$u="\4\5\6";sub H{8*($_[1]%79)+($_[0]%8)}sub G{vec$u,H(@_),1}sub S{vec
($n,H(@_),1)=$_[2]}$_=q^{P`clear`;for$iX){PG($iY)?"O":" "forX8);P"\n"}for$iX){
forX8){$c=scalar grep{G@$_}[$i-1Y-1Z-1YZ-1Y+1ZY-1ZY+1Z+1Y-1Z+1YZ+1Y+1];S$iY,G(
$iY)?$c=~/[23]/?1:0:$c==3?1:0}}$u=$n;select$M,$C,$T,.2;redo}^;s/Z/],[\$i/g;s/Y
/,\$_/xg;s/X/(0..7/g;s/P/print+/g;eval' #     Michael C. Toren <mct@toren.net>

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