SUMMARY: How to enable 24 bit for creator card ?

From: Frank Cusack (fcusack@voicenet.com)
Date: Tue Jan 13 1998 - 20:26:59 CST


I am reposting this for 2 reasons.

1) See my comment inline
2) The word "summary" was not in the subject, so this post would not
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"Andre Saile" <asaile@hotmail.com> wrote:
> PROBLEM
>
> How to enable 24 bit for creator card ?
>
>
> SOLUTION
>
> Overview:
> If you use Creator 2D/3D cards on Solaris 2.5/2.6, it will
> show only 8 bit color display. The following will give you an
> idea how to enable 24 bit color display.
>
> Symptoms:
> If you run /usr/openwin/bin/xdpyinfo, you will get depth of
> root window = 8 planes
>
> Solution:
>
> 1. In the Openwindows environment, type
> #/usr/openwin/bin/openwin -dev /dev/fb0 defdepth 24 ( for
> Solaris 2.6 )
> #/usr/openwin/bin/openwin -dev /dev/fbb0 defdepth 24 (
> for Solaris 2.5 )
> 2. In the CDE environment, modify /usr/dt/config/Xservers

no. copy /usr/dt/config/Xservers to /etc/dt/config/Xservers, then
modify the copy in /etc/... . I think you'll also need to restart
dtlogin.

> file, at the last line:
> o o : Local ............ - nobanner -dev /dev/fb0
> defdepth 24 ( for Solaris 2.6 )
> o o : Local ............ - nobanner -dev /dev/fbb0
> defdepth 24 ( for Solaris 2.5 )
>
> When you run /usr/openwin/bin/xdpyinfo, you will get the
> following info depth of root window = 24 planes
>
>
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