How to enable 24 bit for creator card ?

Andre Saile (asaile@hotmail.com)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 05:25:08 -0800 (PST)

PROBLEM

How to enable 24 bit for creator card ?


SOLUTION

Overview:
If you use Creator 2D/3D cards on Solaris 2.5/2.6, it will
show only 8 bit color display. The following will give you an
idea how to enable 24 bit color display.

Symptoms:
If you run /usr/openwin/bin/xdpyinfo, you will get depth of
root window = 8 planes

Solution:

1. In the Openwindows environment, type
#/usr/openwin/bin/openwin -dev /dev/fb0 defdepth 24 ( for
Solaris 2.6 )
#/usr/openwin/bin/openwin -dev /dev/fbb0 defdepth 24 (
for Solaris 2.5 )
2. In the CDE environment, modify /usr/dt/config/Xservers
file, at the last line:
o o : Local ............ - nobanner -dev /dev/fb0
defdepth 24 ( for Solaris 2.6 )
o o : Local ............ - nobanner -dev /dev/fbb0
defdepth 24 ( for Solaris 2.5 )

When you run /usr/openwin/bin/xdpyinfo, you will get the
following info depth of root window = 24 planes

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