[SunRescue] Re: [Sunhelp] quick reminder

James Lockwood james at foonly.com
Wed Feb 2 02:49:33 CST 2000


On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Dale Ghent wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> | Can someone remind me how to force 24-bit visuals (not pseudocolor, 24bit)
> | under X using a Creator3D?  I cant do it with ffbconfig, and I remember there's
> | a file you edit somewhere to force 24bit on the X command line.. but for
> | the life of me I cant remember where it is!
> 
> Try using m64config as well.

m64config is specific to Mach64 (PGX) framebuffers.  ffbconfig configures
most framebuffer attributes.

Generally you don't have to force a default depth of 24.  I've never had
to, apps that want 24bpp get it and apps that don't ask get 8bpp and are
faster.

-James







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