On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 19:48:29 +1130 Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Friday 31 August 2001 21:47, Collins Richey wrote:
>
> > Well, the developer returned my mail. Difficult to understand,
> but
> > the problem with all my icons for Wide and the splash screen for
> xfce
> > is: running X in color depth 16. Now I've switched to color
> depth 24
> > (Netscape will probably croak), and everything is much better.
>
> ooh, that's interesting. 24bit X is / was a total no-no for some
> time (as you
> probably knew) 24bit if implemented at all by the card - driver -
> author was
> almost always a kludge back to 16 bit.
>
> Is this generally speaking no longer true with Xfree 4++ ? I haven't
> bothered
> checking, preferring 32 bit which states explicitly it cannot / can
> be
> supported rather than silently kludged.
>
> This is a grey area for me and I'm not sure why your develeper would
> choose
> _that_ format, and why it makes any difference at all.
>
>
I really don't know, but it works. I'm on X4.1.0, and even Nutscrape
makes no complaints in 24-bit mode. X won't support my card (Savage)
in 32-bit mode.
--
Collins Richey
Denver Area
jblinux 2.2 xfce sylpheed opera
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