On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:28:15 +0200 Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:44:01AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Actually to give the other point of view, with older, but not too old graphic > > cards it would have been VERY useful to be able to change color depth. > > > > I have an 8MB ati rage mobility M1 (rage pro) which is still rather common in > > just over the hill machines. It gives reasonable 3D performance with DRI with 16 > > bpp (managed to play Castle Wolfenstein and Unreal Tournament 2003 with it under > > linux), but for viewing images you can see color artifacts with 16 bpp so > > switching to 32 bpp is very useful. Since I use swsusp 2 I hardly ever reboot so > > restarting X kills my million windows setup and starting another server doesn't > > work well as it is too cumbersome for images and does work for DRI (dri is > > active but doesn't function well on the second server). > > > > With modern more memory then I currently have left in my head video cards its > > no issue, but there are still laptops with 16 MB video cards being sold which > > could benefit from changing the color depth. > > Sounds to me like you could use two X servers running together and not > restart X. > Considering that I am pushing the limits of my memory already and that 3D and viewing images are a regular part of my work which are done with the same program (matlab) although at different times, having two X servers running is a very bad option. > For the "gaming" configuration you would use a simple desktop that would > not get in your way. the *dms can be configured to run two X servers > with some extra switches for one of them. I don't know kdm but I know > that this is a trivial configuration for gdm. > > Sound settings may betrickier, though. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen | New signature for new address and | VIM is > http://tzafrir.org.il | new homepage | a Mutt's > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best > ICQ# 16849755 | Space reserved for other protocols | friend > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
