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From: dgreen@squid.cs.ucla.edu (Dan R. Greening)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: creating new visuals for a display
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Date: 6 Nov 88 07:41:12 GMT
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In article <26738@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> sarrel@chinook.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes:

>We have two HP 300 with 32 bit Rennaisance(sp?) displays.  If I set
>X11R2 (we don't have R3 yet) to work in the image planes (/dev/crt), I
>seem to be able to only get a visual that has 8 planes.

The HP server always returns a visual with 8 planes, no matter how
many planes you really have.  This breaks a version of magic we have that
uses different color maps depending on the number of planes available.

Guess we'll have to wait for HP to fix it...  It is NOT fixed in X11R3.

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