Color-depth in X-windows, want >8-bit

[Audin Malmin]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:37:43AM -0700, Jesse Rehr wrote:
> I suspect that X is trying to load all 4 virtual terminals (or
> workspaces, whatever) into the graphics card memory at once.  

	Multiple desktops are handled by your window manager, they
don't really have much to do with the x server itself.  They are not
all stored in the frame buffer (though I suppose the server could
cache some of the stuff in off-screen memory...)

> This is strongly implied since I can also get 800x600x16bit to work
> (which multiplies to just under 1 Mb or 1/4 of graphics card
> memory).  

	How much memory does X think your video card has?  This sounds
like it doesn't actually believe you have 4 megs.  What does

	$ X &>x.out

	at the prompt say?  Somewhere in the X startup messages should 
be a line listing what X thinks the video ram situation is...

> (A) Configure X so that it can run 1024x768x24bit and other screens are
> kept in extended memory or just somewhere else while not being used.

	probably, yes.

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                                            Audin Malmin - amalmin at halcyon.com