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Re: 16-bit color [message #27942 is a reply to message #13547]

Tue, 13 November 2001 09:30

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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You should be able to do this easily....

If you are content with booting to the terminal and launching X manually you
can specify what your desktop bit depth is. It has been a while since a
linux box sat on my desk (ahhh, those were the days....) but last time I
knew "startx -- -bpp 16" would get your 16bpp and as you can guess
"startx -- -bpp 24" would get you 24. If you are logged in and you need to
change it, you would have to quit your desktop manager, then restart X at
the appropriate bit depth. If your admin doesn't know how to change this
boot behavior, let me know. I may be able to dredge the name of the file
where you change the "boot to run level" setting out of my feeble brain.

If you boot to XDM (or GDM or whatever your desktop flavor calls it) which
is the graphical login manager, I don't think you can change the desktop bit
depth easily. But then again like I said, it has been a while since I have
had a linux box on my desk. Chek www.freshmeat.net for a tool that might do
this.

-Rick

"James Kuyper" <kuyper@gscmail.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:3BF1411E.59DB9CEA@gscmail.gsfc.nasa.gov...
> David Fanning wrote:
>>
>> James Kuyper (kuyper@gscmail.gsfc.nasa.gov) writes:
>>
>>> I'm using IDL 5.4.1. My previous display was a 24 bpp one. I think my
>>> system can be configured to run in 24bpp mode, but that configuration
>>> seems to be controlled by the sysadmins, and they've been slow to
>>> respond to my requests.
>>
>> Have you offered your first-born child? That
>> sometimes works.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have one to offer. ;-)
>
> Luckily, it wasn't necessary; they've promised to switch it to 24-bit
> mode sometime this week. However, I've also asked for the ability to
> switch configurations myself, without their intervention - they didn't
> respond to that part of the request.
>
> --
> James Kuyper
> MODIS Level 1 Lead
> Science Data Support Team
> (301) 352-2150

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		16-bit colors in Linux (Re: 24 bit colors in IDL) By: G. Hugh SONG on Thu, 19 November 1998 00:00
		Re: 16-bit colors in Linux (Re: 24 bit colors in IDL) By: davidf on Wed, 18 November 1998 00:00
		Re: 16-bit colors in Linux By: mallors on Fri, 20 November 1998 00:00
		Re: 16-bit color By: Nigel Wade on Wed, 14 November 2001 02:57
		Re: 16-bit color By: James Kuyper on Wed, 14 November 2001 09:09
		Re: 16-bit color By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 15 November 2001 06:10
		Re: 16-bit color By: James Kuyper on Tue, 13 November 2001 12:55
		Re: 16-bit color By: Paul van Delst on Tue, 13 November 2001 10:22
		Re: 16-bit color By: Rick Towler on Tue, 13 November 2001 09:30
		Re: 16-bit color By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 13 November 2001 08:51
		Re: 16-bit color By: James Kuyper on Tue, 13 November 2001 07:49
		Re: 16-bit color By: David Fanning on Mon, 12 November 2001 14:03
		Re: 16-bit color By: Logan Lindquist on Thu, 15 November 2001 05:18
		Re: 16-bit color By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 15 November 2001 06:57
		Re: 16-bit color By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 15 November 2001 06:33
		Re: 16-bit color By: James Kuyper on Mon, 12 November 2001 13:33
		Re: 16-bit color By: Rick Towler on Mon, 12 November 2001 11:36

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