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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: true colour mode
From:       "Robin Atwood" <robin.atwood () klm ! nl>
Date:       1998-07-30 9:03:11
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If you are using XFree86 3.3.2 look in /etc/X11/XF86Config for the
definition for your video card (usually at the bottom) and add
DefaultColorDepth 16 to the head of the section.
HTH
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Cheers
-Robin.
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> From: Jon Svejgaard <jon@ace.dk>
> To: Nick Thompson <uknt@micro.lucent.com>
> Cc: KDE User <kde-user@kde.org>
> Subject: Re: true colour mode
> Date: 29 July 1998 21:29
> 
> On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Nick Thompson wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does KDE always dither backgrounds to save on colours? I have a true
colour
> > display, which I would have thought would have made dithering
unnecassary.
> > Is there an option hidden away somewhere to switch to truecolor mode?
When
> > KFM is web browsing, if it ends up having to dither large images,
things get
> > really slow :-( Witness the cog animation on the KDE home page with
> > dithering!
> This depends on the mode in which the X server starts. Yours probably 
> runs in 8 bpp mode which gives only 256 colours. You can force the 
> Xserver to 16 bit mode (65000 colours) by setting the option '-bpp 16' in

> the appropriate place... wherever that is. On my Slackware, the 
> /usr/bin/X11/startx script has a variable called serverargs. I set that:
> serverargs="-bpp 16" so now X starts in 16 bit mode when I run startx.
> However, I normally run things through kdm, in which case 
> /usr/lib/X11/Xservers must be changed:
> 
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16
> 
> Now, when kdm starts, that forces the X server into 16 bit mode.
> 
> You MAY have to look a bit in order to locate the relevant files if yours

> is not a Slackware system, but this is the general idea.
> BTW, along with the Xservers file is also an xdm-errors file which 
> contains status output from the X server. There you can see the mod in 
> which the server started:
> (**) SVGA: Using 16 bpp, Depth 16, Color weight: 565
> 
> Hope this helps,
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