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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:
> > In my experience, zgv also works much better when your graphics card
> > only does a few colors. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a
> > version of zgv that works in X?
> I don't have one - if I use it under X I get full-screen images without
> any X.

I found the source package: http://rus.members.beeb.net/xzgv.html
But I'm not sure how useful it would be. zgv is quite large compared
to xli (as you mentioned).

> > You can get quite good output from xli with 640x480x12 or better.
>
> There is no 12-bit color, it will display at 15-bit if available or 8-bit
> if not.

I think you said before that it selects the closest working mode
automatically. Apparently, in the event of a tie it picks the smaller
mode. That will cause problems since the PseudoColor routine (8-bit)
is broken. So x15 or x16 would be better.

> 24-bit, so for 2MB video try
>
> 800x600x24

640x480 for 1MB?

David