still having trouble configuring X

[Greg Hamilton]

15 bits makes sense. 5 bits each for red, green and blue. Of course 
you'd store a 15 bit number as a 16 bit number because numbers are 
typically packed on byte or word boundaries. The extra bit doesn't do 
anything.

On 10/02/2004, at 1:10 PM, peter weber wrote:

> just to follow up... thanks for all the suggestions about this 
> problem, playign with ideas everone's had eventually led to me 
> figuring out that i simply needed to set the depth to 15, not sixteen. 
> apparently my video setup is the kind that only uses 15 bits for 
> "thousands" of colors.
>
> thanks!
>
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