[ltp] > 256 colors for 600E?

[David Newman]

> > For my Thinkpad 600E I'd like to get an X server capable of
> displaying more
> > than the 256 colors I get with the XFree86-SVGA server that comes with
> > RH6.2.
>
> It only depends on the video memory you have. There is a limit
> the product of the
> resolution and the number of colors, which depends on the amount
> of video memory.
> You should get the same resolution you get from windows. Exactly the same.
> The acceleration can be different on some chipsets, but that is a
> rare problem
> to my knowledge.

???

The documentation with XF-3x-SVGA states that it supports only 256 colors.

The Thinkpad 600E has a NeoMagic MagicMedia256AV video chipset with 2.5
Mbytes of memory.

Is there some other server in the RH6.2 distribution I should be using?

Thanks

dn

> >
> > Any recommendations? Does XFree86-4 do better than 3?
>
> I doubt it. Maybe some model some where, but this problem was
> solved a long time ago (i.e., years ago).
>


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