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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!rclnews.eng.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!rees From: rees@umich.edu (Jim Rees) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix,alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 Subject: Only 4 shades on my Handbook Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 15:30:33 EST Organization: University of Michigan CITI Lines: 14 Message-ID: <74790d04.17275@luckey.citi.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: luckey.citi.umich.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2533 comp.windows.x.i386unix:19603 alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000:44309 I've got a Gateway 2000 Handbook 486. I've been running Mach 2.5 with XFree86 2.1 and getting 16 shades of gray on the screen, which is the maximum that the hardware will support. Recently I installed NetBSD 1.1 and XFree86 3.1.2. Now I'm only getting four shades of gray. The X server thinks it's giving me 16, but there are only four distinct shades. I've got version 1.25 of the bios, which is the latest that works with this machine. Someone in Japan reports that the X server works fine for him, and I've tried his XF86Config with no luck. I've also tried the latest beta version of the X server, 3.1.2D, and that doesn't work any better. Can anyone suggest a fix, or something else to try?