Re: Need direction: configure Elite 3D FB for 24-bit color....

From: Chris Morgan (cm_at_mihalis.net)
Date: 10/28/04

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    Date: 28 Oct 2004 13:44:53 -0400

    Richard Santink <rsantink@florida.us> writes:

    > Chris,
    > Thanks for the info.. it appears that in my case, I will use afbconfig
    > for the Elite3D. I will however have to research all these different
    > 'overlay's and stuff.. it's very confusing trying to figure out which
    > one creates the effect I am seeking.

    I see other posters gave you even better, very specific
    recommendations and you're all sorted... exellent.

    I do think the high-end Sun cards are a bit unusual and a bit of
    surprise to some X-Window developers when they come across them for
    the first time. to be fair, it was pure luck that I even learnt about
    these issues myself. I was lucky enough to get an ultra 10 with a
    Creator card, whereas all subsequent purchases for the same project
    were strictly ultra 5s with just the built-in fairly weak pgx24
    graphics.

    I have colleagues who have never even seen an "interesting" visual
    list since although they work on a Solaris GUI application, they only
    ever use simple devices like pgx, or even they simply work against
    Exceed on their PC instead. I had to insist they do some testing on
    Creator cards, like some clients were using, else we would have been
    at risk of getting the wrong gamma correction, or using 8-bit color
    when 24-bit is also available (a real sin in my book!).

    Cheers

    Chris 

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