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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.javanet.com!not-for-mail From: "John D. Szumowski" <harpo@javanet.com> Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: X color limitations? Why? Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 21:21:37 -0500 Organization: JavaNet Cafe Lines: 44 Message-ID: <33485A31.41C67EA6@javanet.com> References: <3346929F.15FB7483@javanet.com> <5i91tl$ntg$1@bofh.noc.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: spfl-us222.javanet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.windows.x:95966 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38672 Ron Echeverri wrote: > > In article <3346929F.15FB7483@javanet.com>, > John D. Szumowski <harpo@javanet.com> wrote: > >Although I have a working knowledge of (just) using X, I am unfamiliar > >with it "under the skin". > >Anyways, I am using Xfree86 3.1.2 under FreeBSD and wonder why I cannot > >get >256 colors with my cirrus logic 5428. > The readme file states that > >64k and true color are impossible on isa (i have a compaq presario > >850...bleah!) with >=16 megs of ram. (I have 16 installed) > >Why is this so? Why isn't windows so limited? Most importantly, is there > >anything I can do about this short of buying a new video card? FVWM is > >ok, but Afterstep is much nicer, IMHO, but it eats up colors like crazy > >in 256 mode. > >any thoughts/solutions would be appreciated. > >thanks. > > First off, i'd recommend upgrading to Xfree86 3.2. Second, have you > tried to start X with a -bpp option? Try something like > > startx -- -bpp 16 > > That should start it with 16-bit pixel depth (64K colors). I've done that...and had some nasty crashes as a result. I have to set "options linear" in /etc/XF86Config as well as a membase entry. No luck so far... Is 3.2 available via FreeBSD's ftp site? I think that I need 3.2A (have heard of cirrus problems in 3.2)...but just haven't gotten around to figuring out which files I need to get and when. There isn't an upgrade around, by chance? > > rone > -- > Ron Echeverri Best Internet Usenet Administration rone@best.net > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > My personal policy prevents me from replying to people who intentionally > break their email address. I apologize for the inconvenience. thanks. -- =/////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\| | John Szumowski - harpo (at) javanet (dot) com | | http://www.javanet.com/~harpo | =\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////|