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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> > > xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa -screen 1280x1024x16
> > >
> > > This gives me a 1280 resolution screen but only 8-bit color
> > > 800x600x24 also gives me 8-bit color (light turquoise)
> > >
> > > I would think Xvesa would provide more colors, since Xvesa
> > > -listmodes gives a long list of possible resolutions and
> > > color depths.
> >
> > I believe that Xvesa can be compiled with varying capabilites.
> > It is possible that your version was compiled with a 8-bit
> > limit.
>
> Why would someone compile Xvesa, which requires a VESA 2.0 card, for 8-bit
> color?  All my my VESA 2.0 cards have 4M RAM and do 16 million colors at
> high resolutions.
>
When you finally got xvesa running, Steven, at what color depth did it
run?  Do you think she got an 8 bit version, given that you seem to have
used the same package?  Or is there maybe some other reason she's not
getting more than 8 bit color?

James