Tech Source RAPTOR DL-LITE - X11R6.1 FOR AIX INSTALLATION-REFERENCE, Installation And Reference Manual

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Chapter 4 - Invoking X11R6.1
4-3
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 the required settings for these
configurations. The default bit-depth for all Raptor cards is 8-bit.
The bit-depth of the Raptor DL-Lite can be set to 8-bit only, 8+24-
bit, 24-bit, mox16, mox24 or mox32 (see
Table 2 .)
Mode/Bit-Depth Description of Mode
8-bit 8-bit PseudoColor visual
8+24 mode One 8-bit One 24-bit visual
(simultaneous)
24-bit 24-bit TrueColor visual only
mox16 mox mode w/16 planes
mox24 mox mode w/24 planes
mox32 mox mode w/32 planes
Table 2
An explanation of different MOX
modes can be found in Section
4.4.
There are two ways to set bit-depth on the Raptor DL-Lite:
•
By setting the environment variable
STARSMODE
•
By editing the config file
/etc/X11/TSIScreenConfig