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From: stroyan@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: visual depth vs. colormap_size
Message-ID: <6910006@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Apr 89 18:24:50 GMT
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Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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> What you are seeing is not always the case.  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.  I have heard that it
> is something needing compatibility with older color cards which are byte
> per pixel addressed, so the mono board was addressed with one byte per pixel.

This was the result of some assumptions in the leveraged sample server
code.  There wasn't time to adjust the code before the first X11 release.
The depth will be reported correctly by the X server in HP's 6.5 and 3.1
releases.

Mike Stroyan, stroyan@hpfcla.hp.com