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paroneayea
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 Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 8:20 pm Post subject: 24 bit color depth? Where's 32 at? (SOLVED..aka explained) |
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Alright... I just set up my Rage 128 card for X. Seems to work just fine, cept there's one little annoyance I have. I can't seem to set my color depth to 32 bit!
Now I seem to remember when using Mandrake that it was able to hook me up with a friendly 32 bit color depth. 32 bit color is rather important to me... I make comics.
I tried rigging this to work by myself by adding this to /etc/XF86Config
| Code: | Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection |
Then I set the DefaultDepth variable to 32. X choked and died when I tried to start it up, yelling at me that no such color depth could be run on my computer, or something. (If you need the specific error message, I'll be happy to try that again)
Have I somehow been mistaken? Does 32 bit color simply not exist under X Windows at all?
My thanks in advance for any help I get.  [/code]
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melk
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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32bit color in windows = 24bit color in Linux.
It has to do with the way windows associates its color depths. I don't remember all of the specifics of how it works - but that essentially answers your question |
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shm
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| melk wrote: | 32bit color in windows = 24bit color in Linux.
It has to do with the way windows associates its color depths. I don't remember all of the specifics of how it works - but that essentially answers your question |
yup, in Windows, it referers to how many bits it allocates for both colors and the alpha channel (4 bytes, or 32 bits). On XFree86, it referers to how many bits it allocates for JUST colors (3 bytes, or 24 bits). In either case, it allocates the same amount of storage (8 for each in RGB, and 8 for Alpha). This is commonly referred to as True Color. The semantics between xfree86 and windows just deferr.
My guess is that Mandrake was just trying to make their distro more Windows-user friendly =)
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paroneayea
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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Awesome. Thank you both for your input... and hopefully some other confused n00b will encounter this thread and find relief just as I have.
You know... the stressless relief thing.
...stop thinking in innuendos! There's no way I can show my appreciation on here without sounding dirty!
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syscrash
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| paroneayea wrote: | You know... the stressless relief thing.
...stop thinking in innuendos! There's no way I can show my appreciation on here without sounding dirty! |
hahahaha  |
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