[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: Tutorial: Maemo_Dev_Platform_RS_v1.0.tgz and sapwood-server

[From: Aleksandr Koltsoff]

On Sunday 29 May 2005 19:09, Olivier Bornet wrote:
> It will be great to be able to use maemo with a depth of 24, even if it
> runs at 16. Can we do this ?
>

Hello Olivier,

inside sbox:
fakeroot apt-get install xserver-xephyr
(there seems to be some part inside the package that requires "root")

then start it with Xephyr -screen 800x480x16 -ac :2

This _should_ work, but at least for me it didn't :-). X ephyr is a Kdrive 
based X server that supports the modern X extensions and acts as a client to 
existing X server (similar to Xnest in this respect). It can provide a 16bpp 
screen to it's clients while it will use 24bpp itself (in your case).

Anyhow, also check the bugzilla, I remember seeing smt about this there.

As for your question, maemo cannot currently run at 16bpp as there seem to be 
some hard fixed assumptions. OTOH, the target device (770) is 16-bit, so 
there might not be much sense other than testing your application reliability 
against env changes.

ak.