Color settings

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> On Friday 29 September 2006 08:30, Harry G wrote:
>> I am trying to run Varicad on my laptop, but when it launches, it states
>> that it requires that I run my monitor at a "true color" setting.  I don't
>> remember how to achieve this.  Any thoughts?
>>
>> I am running Mepis 6.0 by the way.
>>
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>> Harry G
>
> Harry,
>
> I think what their talking about would be the DefaultDepth setting in your
> xorg.conf or XF86Config files. Setting this to 24 should be "true color" if
> memory servers me correctly. What is yours  set to now?

That is correct.  24bpp is 'true color'.  Many CAD apps need this so that 
they can impliment an 8 bit overlay.

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