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Re: 16-bit color [message #28070 is a reply to message #28014]

Thu, 15 November 2001 06:10

Nigel Wade
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Registered: March 1998

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James Kuyper wrote:

> Nigel Wade wrote:
>>
>> James Kuyper wrote:
>>
>>> Rick Towler wrote:
> ...
>>> I've asked about this, but the sysadmins are unwilling to allow manual
>>> launching of X.
>>>
>>
>> It's pretty hard to prevent.
>>
>> Linux supports multiple displays on the same monitor in the same way that
>> it supports multiple consoles by using the virtual consoles.
>>
>> You can start a second X server, running on display :1. You switch
>> between
>> :0 and :1 with ctrl-alt-F7 and ctrl-alt-F8 (the second display uses the
>> next available virtual console by default). I'm not sure if you can have
>> more as I've only ever used :0 for 24bit and :1 for 8bit.
>>
>> If does require that an XF86Config file is set up to handle multiple
>> depths.
>
> The one for my machine at work isn't set up for multiple depths.
> However, I'll try that on my home machine. I never really understood how
> :1 works, more precisely, I was unaware that you could get to it by
> switching virtual consoles. Thanks!
>

I've managed to get an secondary X server running with RH7.2. Unfortunately
it refuses all connections, even from the window manager. Not very useful.

The setup which used to work with vn. 4.0.1 of XFree86 no longer works with
the 4.1 version supplied with RH7.2. Whether that's a new "feature" or a
bug or a problem with the RH supplied rpms I don't know at the moment.

I had thought that it was possible for a user to run a second X server and
specify their own XF86onfig file, but it appears that the security of the X
server won't allow that. So you will need to get the cooperation of your
sys admin to have multiple screen depths.

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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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