From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 24 02:10:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA21404 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 02:10:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA21391 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 02:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V5.0-4 #13110) id <01I2PQUTDGWG001ZKZ@mail.rwth-aachen.de> for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 11:14:02 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA05938; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 11:15:32 +0100 Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 11:15:32 +0100 (MET) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Subject: Re: More X question. In-reply-to: To: lenzi@cwbone.bsi.com.br (Lenzi, Sergio) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199603241015.LAA05938@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Hello all. > I'm not so "new" in X but one question remains unanwerd. > > 1) After starting netscape, when I try to start some X programs (xpaint, > for example) the program complains: No more colors ..... > > Question: Is there a way to increase the color map in the X server? > > Thanks a lot.. You can start the X server with -bpp 16 giving you another type of visual (not 256 indexed values but 32768 direct colors - maybe wrong just estimated 32*32*32 :-) at the cost of resolution unless you have a lot of (4MB) memory in you graphics card. > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de