Setting Bit-Depth And Resolution; Setting Bit-Depth; Setting Bit-Depth On Raptor 2000 - Tech Source RAPTOR 1100T - X11R6.1 FOR AIX Installation Manual

4.3

Setting Bit-Depth and Resolution

4.3.1 Setting Bit-Depth

Raptor cards support various bit-depths and overlay configurations.
This section describes
configurations. The default bit-depth for all Raptor cards is 8-bit.

4.3.1.1 Setting Bit-Depth on Raptor 2000

The Raptor 2000 supports 8-bit, mox16 and mox24 modes (see
Table 1.)
Mode/Bit-Depth
8-bit
mox16
mox24
An explanation of the different MOX modes can be found in Section
4.4.
To start X Windows with a specific depth on a Raptor 2000 card,
the environment variable STARSMODE needs to be set.
example to start X Windows in 8-bit only mode set the STARSMODE
environment variable to +8 before starting up the X server.
prompt% setenv STARSMODE +8
Other bit-depths can be selected in a similar manner.
Chapter 4 - Invoking X11R6.1
the required settings
Description of Mode
8-bit PseudoColor visual
mox mode w/16 planes
mox mode w/24 planes
Table 1
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