Re: How to change color depth on Ultra 60?

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: 13 Apr 2004 09:00:51 GMT

Logan Shaw <lshaw-usenet@austin.rr.com> writes:

>Well, that's interesting to know. It has been a while since I've
>worked with real Sun hardware. These days I just run Solaris on
>x86 systems, so I didn't know about m64config being setuid. (Not
>that it should have to be -- setuid is almost inherently evil
>in my opinion, and, also in my opinion, this should be handled
>with an ioctl() against some device driver. But oh well.)

X doe snto cater for change scolor depths or resolutions on the fly.

(The Xserver could in theory support changing resolutions it would
confuse some clients but that would be all; changing color depths is
a different matter entirely; there it would be nice if we could have
8 and 24 bit coexist in all X servers and do some form of "compatibility
mode" for clients which don't play ball. (Some clients just plain refuse
to work if the first visual is not the proper one)

Casper 

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