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RE:different bit depths
- TO: cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: RE:different bit depths
- From: j dot j dot ita at siep dot shell dot com
- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 08:38:54 +0100
Strange. Maybe a graphics card incompatibility. Any ideas Harold, John,
Sahuib?
Joel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aegis@melchior.nerv-un.net [mailto:aegis@melchior.nerv-un.net]
> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 9:31 PM
> To: aegis@melchior.nerv-un.net; Ita, Joel J.J.
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: RE: Re: different bit depths
>
>
> 32-bit color
>
> --
> Chad Austin (Aegis)
> http://www.nerv-un.net/~aegis/
>
>
> On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 j.j.ita@siep.shell.com wrote:
>
> > What color depth is your display set to normally (ie what does
> > Start->Settngs->ControlPanel->Display->settings tell you)?
> >
> > Joel
> > ----Original Message-----
> > From: aegis@nerv-un.net [mailto:aegis@nerv-un.net]
> > Sent: 03 November 2000 19:18
> > To: Ita, Joel J.J.
> > Cc: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: different bit depths
> >
> >
> > I changed the line in startxwin.bat to look like this, and
> twm and KDE
> > still
> > look funky.
> >
> > start XWin -screen 0 1024x768x32
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Chad,
> > > The answer to your second question will also
> answer your first
> > > one. The 8 refers to a screen number. This should
> actually be set to
> > 0
> > > instead of 8 for the command line arguments to have an
> effect on the
> > > Xserver you start on a single headed machine. I believe
> the default is
> > > 8 bit if you do not specify the properties for screen 0
> and that is
> > why
> > > you are having problems.
> > >
> > > Joel
> > >
> > > > How can I get XFree on NT4 to display 32-bit color? I
> > > > changed the -screen
> > > > option in startxwin.bat to look like this:
> > > >
> > > > -screen 8 1024x768x32
> > > >
> > > > The X server runs properly, but it seems that the actual bit
> > > > depth is still 8
> > > > bpp.
> > > >
> > > > Also, what does the 8 in that option mean?
> >
> > --
> > Chad Austin (AegisKnight)
> > http://www.nerv-un.net/~aegis/
> >
> >
>