Tech Source Raptor X11R6.1 for AIX - Manual (Page 19)

Chapter 4 - Invoking X11R6.1
4-3
4.3 Setting Bit-Depth and Resolution
4.3.1 Setting Bit-Depth
Raptor cards support various bit-depths and overlay configurations.
This section describes the required settings for these
configurations. The default bit-depth for all Raptor cards is 8-bit.
4.3.1.1 Setting Bit-Depth on Raptor 2000
The Raptor 2000 supports 8-bit, mox16 and mox24 modes (see
Table 1.)
Mode/Bit-Depth Description of Mode
8-bit 8-bit PseudoColor visual
mox16 mox mode w/16 planes
mox24 mox mode w/24 planes
Table 1
An explanation of the different MOX modes can be found in Section
4.4.
To start X Windows with a specific depth on a Raptor 2000 card,
the environment variable
STARSMODE
needs to be set. For
example to start X Windows in 8-bit only mode set the
STARSMODE
environment variable to
+8
before starting up the X server.
prompt% setenv STARSMODE +8
Other bit-depths can be selected in a similar manner.