<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mellertson@gmail.com">mellertson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 07/13/2011 01:43 PM, Doug Kuvaas wrote:<br>
> All right, my woes for this beast are down to one. For some reason,<br>
> if I try to run X directly in 8 bit color mode, I get only greyscale<br>
> output. Because the legacy application I am running doesn't work<br>
> properly with higher color depths (printing of displays doesn't<br>
> work), I cannot run at a higher color depth easily without<br>
> re-writing the application I am running.<br>
><br>
> Command is Xorg :0 -terminate -br +bs -depth 8<br>
><br>
> The display driver is intel I830<br>
><br>
> Anyone have any ideas?<br>
><br>
</div>I am coming in late on this, but have you thought of using xnest?<br>
You could give the application its own X server running inside your<br>
normal X server. It handles lower resolutions/colors then the main<br>
server.<br>
<br>
Mikkel<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>OK, so Xephyr (another Nested X server) does address the color depth issue we were seeing. However, our application also does not like displaying graphics on screens other than :0. Is there w way to start up Fedora/Gnome so that it uses a different screen number for X?</div>