On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 12:00:44PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> (I think) This is because when you have a 256 colour depth then the
> colour table is palleted and you allocate colours differently than when
> its in a true colour mode (>= 15bpp). Its bascically a programmer
> issue, since it is possible to handle this situation easily.
>
> Some X servers provide multiple visuals with different colour depths
> (ie AccelX).
>
> Conceivably XFree86 could be patched to provide multiple colour depth
> visuals too, but I think it would be a lot of work. Note that if it was
> done then you could fairly easily change between colour depths on the
> fly (the server would just convert between different depths).
This is on the feature list for 4.0. Basicaly, all the commercial
servers have had it forever and XFree86 will have it soon.
-- Brooks
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