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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:03:02PM +0000, 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.
>
> > 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 BL3.40 was changed to 15 not
> 12.
>
> I manually edited Xconfig to 1024x768x24 (if I have 4MB video
> RAM, or 16 for 2MB)
>
> 24-bit (truecolor) images would display probably faster and
> 24-bitbetter at , so for 2MB video try
>
> 800x600x24
>

I'll try all three of those, using 15 instead of 12 for David's
suggestion.

Lee

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