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- From: alanf@cs.monash.edu.au (Alan Grant Finlay)
- Subject: 24 bit color under X11 on Personal IRIS
- Message-ID: <alanf.712479837@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au>
- Summary: does X server support 24bit colour?
- Keywords: X11, DirectColor
- Sender: news@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:03:57 GMT
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- Since we have 24bit colour displays on some of our IRIS's I thought it would
- be easy to access the display at this resolution using Xlib TrueColor or
- DirectColor. Unfortunatly it looks as if the version of Xlib or the X server
- we have (came with IRIX 4.0.x) does not support 24bit colour.
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- The Xlib call XDisplayPlanes returns 8 and it looks like that's all it
- supports.
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- Does anyone know if I am doing something wrong. Is the problem with Xlib
- or with the server? (or how can I find out?).
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- Alan Finlay, email:alanf@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au
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