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Date:      Sun, 8 Mar 1998 23:54:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Spike Gronim <spork@cncn.com>
Cc:        fbsdqs <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: RGB color maps
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980308235415.3844T-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980306153628.481A-100000@mental>

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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Spike Gronim wrote:

> 	I have an X display, and xloadimage and other such color intensive
> programs screw up because I have 256 RGB colors and it wants to allocate
> more than I have. Is their any way increase the number of colors I can
> display at once? Thanks.

Call your X server with `-bpp XX' where XX is the desired number of bit
depth.  Try 15 or 16.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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