>> No, it's not just Matrox. I experienced it as well with a Diamond
>> Stealth 3d 2000 S3-Virge card. 24bpp support is still not official, and
>> I can't test 32 yet, so donno if it'll recur there.
> I use the 4 MB Millenium with a 17' NEC monitor, and have no problems
> with Netscape and 24 bpp; of course I'm running Accelerated X server :-)
Actually, unless your AcceleratedX server is behaving differently than
mine, you are probably actually running in 32-bit color mode. Run xdpyinfo
to see for sure. I haven't figured out how to get AcceleratedX into 24-bit
color mode (as opposed to 32), if you have, could you please mail me a hint.
It would be nice to save a littlem memory ...
Quote:> What I'd like to do though, and haven't been able to, is run a Xnest -ed
> 8 bpp server on top of my 24 bpp display, so that I can use my wabi
> applications. Not successful so far.
I have found a reasonable work-around (albeit kludgy) as follows:
create /etc/Xaccel.ini.8-bit and /etc/Xaccel.ini.32-bit
with the corresponding color depth configurations. Write a script
for starting wabi which copies the 8bit configuration file over
the standard config file, starts X on another console (startx -- :1),
sleeps for a few seconds, and then restores the original config file
(this kludge was a result of being unable to get local .Xaccel.ini files
to work properly). You still have to use CTRL-ALT-F7 and CTRL-ALT-F8
to toggle between two, indedependent X sessions, one running in 32-bit
color mode and one running in 8-bit color mode. Not as cool as having
wabi apps next to your 32-bit netscape, xv, and xanim windows, but pretty
handy for quickly getting at those legacy windows apps you need (in
my case, Quicken 4.0).
hope this is useful,
jean.
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