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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.windows.x.i386unix,alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000
Subject: Re: Only 4 shades on my Handbook
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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Date: 26 Mar 1996 13:42:48 GMT
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rees@umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes:

> 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.

Are you forcing the server to use a StaticGray visual?  At least for
my Really Old notebook, this is required.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j