RE:different bit depths

[j dot j dot ita at siep dot shell dot com]

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/
> > 
> > 
>