From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 8 23:55:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02603 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 23:55:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA02503 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 23:54:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA03963; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 23:54:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 23:54:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Spike Gronim cc: fbsdqs Subject: Re: RGB color maps In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message