can't alter display resolution on new dapper install

[Michel D'HOOGE]

On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:05:15 Donn wrote:
> 24 is the same number of colours as 16 but 24 can include
> alpha "shades" which are not really used on a desktop

No, you're off of 8 bits. This is 32 that has 8 bits for alpha. I thought 16 - 
like 8- used an adaptative palette (e.g. if your picture is more blue than 
red, the percentage of blue colors will be greater than red) but it seems it 
is fixed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_palettes

-- 
Michel