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- From: tomw@orac.esd.sgi.com (Tom Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: 24 bit color under X11 on Personal IRIS
- Message-ID: <TOMW.92Jul30171404@orac.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 00:14:04 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.070038.17110@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.
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- In-Reply-To: alanf@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au's message of Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:00:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.070038.17110@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au>, alanf@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au writes:
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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.
-
- > The Xlib call XDisplayPlanes returns 8 and it looks like that's all it
- > supports.
-
- > Does anyone know if I am doing something wrong. Is the problem with Xlib
- > or with the server? (or how can I find out?).
-
- The XDisplayPlanes() function is just a wrapper around the macro
- DisplayPlanes(). All it does is return the depth of the root window.
- If you use xdpyinfo, I'm sure you'll find that you have a 24 bit deep
- visual available.
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