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- From: cohen@lindsay.psychiatry.uiowa.edu
- Subject: Re: 24 bit color under X11 on Personal IRIS
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.152821.7202@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:28:21 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.070038.17110@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> <TOMW.92Jul30171404@orac.esd.sgi.com>
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- In article <TOMW.92Jul30171404@orac.esd.sgi.com> tomw@orac.esd.sgi.com (Tom
- Weinstein) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul30.070038.17110@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au>,
- alanf@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au writes:
- >
- >> 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.
-
- Are you sure about that? I thought that the Personal Irises (4D20G) only had 8
- bits of visual to start with (and end with). If there is a way to get 24 bit
- color out of a 4D20, I would appreciate a pointer on how to get it.
-
- thanks
-
-