On Fri, 19 May 2000, Herbert Melgar wrote:
..
> [snip]
> >run two X servers, one on /dev/tty3 (or whatever is your usual) with
> >the usual colour depth, and one on /dev/tty4 with 640x480 8bit. You
> >can switch between the two with Ctrl-Alt-Fx (x = number of your tty).
>
> I do this too but it's quite a drain on my PC's resources.
>
> Isn't there a way for X to dynamically switch among different color depths
> the way Windows does? What is it in the design of X that prohibits this?
The VidModeExtension supposedly allows that.. in XFree86 4.0 I think
depth-switching is allowed. Upgrade folks!! warning: that 78MB memory
footprint of mine? XFree86 4.0 on a Voodoo3.
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