Managers,
I'm running 4.0F on a 433Au workstation. There have been a few summaries in the past on how to change the CDE colour depth, which have so far failed for me.I have a ZLXp2-EV5 graphics card with the card settings set to a resolution of 1024x768 (which is fine for me). The colour depth I am achieving is 8 (with a default installation). The card has 2MB memory (I think - see below). Essentially I want to improve the screen colour display to whatever my card will achieve. Previous summaries refer to the Xservers file in /usr/dt/config/Xservers, /etc/dt/config/Xservers & /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers and the /usr/var/X11/XServer.conf file, specifying options for -depth, TrueColor, -vclass etc, none of which seem to increase the colour depth (although TrueColour seems to increase the colour depth slightly) after a stop/start of the X server (S95 script).
Could the problem be that my card is not capable (at this resolution-due to memory) of increasing by more than 8-bit ? - I've tried lower res but this has no increase in depth.The output from xdypinfo (below) has various visual id's - are these the combinations possible with the card ?
Does anyone have a definitive answer on this (ie which files/options to set for cde, output of xdpyinfo, card capabilities), documentation in this area seems to be somewhat lacking.
Regards
# sizer -gr
1024x768
# sizer -gt
ZLXp2-EV5
#grep tga /var/adm/messgaes
Aug 9 18:28:15 vmunix: tga0: depth 8, map size 2MB, 1024x768
Aug 9 18:28:15 vmunix: tga0: ZLXp2-E, Revision: 34
Aug 9 18:28:15 vmunix: kernel console: tga0
#xdpyinfo
name of display: :0.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: DECWINDOWS Digital Equipment Corporation Digital UNIX V4.0
vendor release number: 1
maximum request size: 4194300 bytes
motion buffer size: 100
bitmap unit, bit order, padding: 32, LSBFirst, 32
image byte order: LSBFirst
number of supported pixmap formats: 6
supported pixmap formats:
depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
depth 12, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
keycode range: minimum 8, maximum 255
focus: window 0xc00034, revert to Parent
number of extensions: 20
Adobe-DPS-Extension
BIG-REQUESTS
DEC-XTRAP
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
DPSExtension
Keyboard-Management-Extension
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
Multi-Buffering
SHAPE
SYNC
Shared-Memory Transport
XC-MISC
XIE
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
XVideo
default screen number: 0
number of screens: 1
screen #0: dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (342x275 millimeters)
resolution: 76x71 dots per inch
depths (1): 8
root window id: 0x2d
depth of root window: 8 planes
number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1
default colormap: 0x21
default number of colormap cells: 8
preallocated pixels: black 0, white 255
options: backing-store YES, save-unders YES
largest cursor: 64x64
current input event mask: 0x30003c
ButtonPressMask ButtonReleaseMask EnterWindowMask
LeaveWindowMask SubstructureRedirectMask FocusChangeMask
number of visuals: 10
default visual id: 0x28
visual:
visual id: 0x22
class: PseudoColor
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 256
red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x23
class: PseudoColor
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 256
red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x24
class: DirectColor
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 8 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0xe0, 0x1c, 0x3
significant bits in color specification: 3 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x25
class: GrayScale
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 256
red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x26
class: StaticGray
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 256
red, green, blue masks: 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x27
class: StaticColor
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 256
red, green, blue masks: 0xe0, 0x1c, 0x3
significant bits in color specification: 8 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x28
class: TrueColor
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 8 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0xe0, 0x1c, 0x3
significant bits in color specification: 3 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x29
class: TrueColor
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 8 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0xe0, 0x1c, 0x3
significant bits in color specification: 3 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x2a
class: TrueColor
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 8 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0xe0, 0x1c, 0x3
significant bits in color specification: 3 bits
visual:
visual id: 0x2b
class: TrueColor
depth: 8 planes
available colormap entries: 8 per subfield
red, green, blue masks: 0xe0, 0x1c, 0x3
significant bits in color specification: 3 bits
Received on Fri Aug 10 2001 - 18:21:04 NZST