On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:06:40AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > I'd suggest either use 16 bpp
Acckk!! No, thanks. I regularly do true color graphics work. I need all 24 bits. > all the time or simply switch to virtual > console, run startx -- -bpp 16 and use this second X server for GL stuff Yeah, I thought about this, but that is not a user friendly option. I'm asking 'cause my boys are the ones who want to be able to play this game (Quake II), and while a seven year old can do GUI, as it is the simplest way to get this stuff done, command line activities may be a bit much, especially as they are familiar with XDM and etc, but not the command line stuff. > or modify xdm config to start two X servers - one with your regular > settings, the other one for 3D stuff > > there are probably some other ways as well. > > most of the X server that you are not using at given time would be > swapped out I guess, so you only need sufficient amount of swap space, > not RAM. Which still requires them having to figure out what screen the "Quake II X server" is running on and to remember the two sets of special key strokes neccesary to switch between VT's . . . but, yeah, that may be the only way. Anybody else . . . any suggestions? Maybe I should just bite the bullet and hack this into XDM . . . John S.
