On 07-Nov-2000 Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > While I realise you can have many different color depths, I remember reading > (but am not sure) that 32bpp is the Linux default... assuing the card > supports it. > > I just want to check if that's so and what difference that makes with 24 > bit, sice the number of colors is the same? >
32 bit is really a better 16 bit. In general, 32 is the slowest mode on a video card, although some cards do it better than others. I wish I could fully explain the differences, but I do not know the nuances. my experience 8bpp was the default.
