RE: display depth

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Matej,

8 bits per pixel is not supported, yet.

I will be working on 8 bpp shortly, but it requires some palette management
so it will take some time to code.

The bit depth command line parameter is only used when running in a
DirectDraw fullscreen mode, otherwise we have to use the bit depth that
Windows is currently using.

I will also be updating the User's Guide shortly to reflect when the bpp
parameter is used and when it is ignored.

Thank you for your interest in the project,

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Matej
> Franceskin
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 10:39 AM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Subject: display depth
>
>
> I use the following command to start my X server on win2k:
>
>  XWin -from my_address -screen 0 1024x768x32 -fp tcp/fontserver:7000
> -engine 4 -query remote_server &
>
> The problem is that I want to run some programs that do not support
> visuals with more than 256 colors.
> If my screen has 32bit depth than the option -screen 0 1024x768x8 does
> nothing. I noticed that the last parameter (screen depth) is irrelevant.
> XWin always uses the same depth as the win2k display so If I want to get
> 8 bit depth I have to change the win2k display setting to 256 colors and
> use -engine 1 with XWin and all the colors I get this way are completely
> messed up.
>
> The same thing works fine in linux...
>
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug (or feature)?
>
>
>