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[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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On 07/13/2011 01:43 PM, Doug Kuvaas wrote:
> All right, my woes for this beast are down to one.  For some reason,
> if I try to run X directly in 8 bit color mode, I get only greyscale
> output.  Because the legacy application I am running doesn't work
> properly with higher color depths (printing of displays doesn't
> work), I cannot run at a higher color depth easily without
> re-writing the application I am running.  
> 
> Command is Xorg :0 -terminate -br +bs -depth 8
> 
> The display driver is intel I830
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
I am coming in late on this, but have you thought of using xnest?
You could give the application its own X server running inside your
normal X server. It handles lower resolutions/colors then the main
server.

Mikkel
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