Donavan Nelson wrote:
>
> I've got a stock install of RH 5.0 with X. But I can not get the display
> to use more than 6 bits per rgb value.
???? I didn't even know X would support 6 bits/pixel!
> I have an S3 Trio64V2 PCI clone type car with 1 meg-o-video ram. All I'm
> trying to do is use netscape to view some local pages, but the graphics
> are terrible because of the lost color depth.
What screen resolution are you using? The Megabytes of video RAM needed
can be approximated using the formula:
(Vert Resolution) X (Horz Resolution) X (bits/pixel) / 8388608
So an 1024 X 768 screen at 8 bits per pixel would require
1024 X 768 X 8/8388608 == 0.78 Meg
If you are operating at 1024 X 768 you should be able to get 8 bbp which
is enough for almost everything Netscape can do.
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