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Re: 16-bit color [message #27961 is a reply to message #13547]

Mon, 12 November 2001 13:33

James Kuyper
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Registered: March 2000

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Rick Towler wrote:
>
> Unless you are using IDL 5.5 16 bit displays are not supported. AFAIK, only
> 8 and 24 bit displays are supported on IDL 5.4 and below. My guess is that
> your previous workstation sported a 24 bpp display? Does your display
> adapter support 24 bpp? Maybe you can add a few lines to your XFree config
> file to include a 24bpp mode.

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.

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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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