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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: visual depth vs. colormap_size
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Date: 5 Apr 89 19:27:25 GMT
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    We have an HP 9000/320 with
    an older mono display card, running HP's X11R2 server.  With this card the
    display has a depth of 8, but only 2 colormap cells.

This is really a bug.  There's no good excuse (that I can think of) for why the
HP server reports a depth of 8 in this case, it should be reporting a depth of
1.  (The topcat on the HP similarly reports depth 8, but it's really depth 6,
and has 64 colormap entries.)  The reporting of 8 is due to bugs in the server
(the server "drawable" structure doesn't distinguish between "depth" and "bits
per pixel").  Fixed planned for R4.