[daip] Re: question on install

[Eric Greisen]

ppalmer at oskar.uchicago.edu writes:

 > I had to go to a meeting, but now I am back for a few minutes.
 > 
 > I ran xdpyinfo, and got a lot of stuff that I don't really understand,
 > but toward the end, it lists:
 >  
 > visual:
 >   visual id: 0x26
 >   class: TrueColor
 >   depth:  8 planes
 >   available colormap entries:  8 per subfield
 >   red, green, blue masks: 0x7, 0x38, 0xc0
 >   significant bits in color specification:  8 bits
 > 
 > Doesn't thgat mean that it has TrueColor?

    Yes, but 8 planes (bits).  We demand at least 24 for TrueColor -
what sort of computer is this?

Eric