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From: jbb@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Jim B. Byers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Size of Colormap in Xhp300 server.
Message-ID: <101950131@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 1 Jun 90 17:09:34 GMT
References: <25348@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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I suspect that xdpyinfo is reporting back incorrect information. :-(  If memory
servers me correctly the MIT R3 HP server had this problem.  Are you using
this or an HP released server?   The monitor you mentioned is a 19" 1024x768 
color montior (HP 98782A).  Assuming you do not have an SRX 3D graphics card,
you either have a 98547A 6 plane graphics board or a 98549A High Res,
High Performance 6 plane Color graphics board. 

As you probably know this translates into 64 colors unless you wish to produce
clients that ask the window manager for their own colormaps.  This is generally
bad form as it causes the rest of the windows to look *very ugly* when these
clients have the focus, but may be useful when you just have to have those 
colors.

All current HP 1280x1024 displays have at least 8 planes.

Hope that this helps.

Jim Byers
Hewlett Packard 
Interface Technology Operation Marketing/Lab Team
(The X11/Motif/Vue folks in Corvallis)

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