From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 18 21: 2:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2a.ispchannel.com (smtp.ispchannel.com [24.142.63.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6909B37B4C5 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 21:02:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from ispchannel.com ([206.31.81.146]) by smtp2a.ispchannel.com (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 7d3764cdaca754bf8ae20adf0db2aa60) with ESMTP id <20001119050534.BCAX382.smtp2a@ispchannel.com>; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 21:05:34 -0800 Message-ID: <3A175F29.EEE3EA96@ispchannel.com> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 23:03:37 -0600 From: Mark Hummel Organization: Innovative Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kstewart@urx.com Cc: FSD Subject: Re: (Kent) Can't Run KDE in 16 bit Color Mode References: <3A172EEF.23304DA2@ispchannel.com> <3A17392B.35A586A6@urx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kent, Thanks for the quick response. When I boot Windoze 98, I have 16 bit high color at 1024 x 768. If my video card can do it with Windoze, why can't it do it with FBSD? Mark Kent Stewart wrote: > Mark Hummel wrote: > > > > I just finished a reinstall of FBSD 4.1.1R. I setup XF86Config to > > recognize the standard 2 MB of VRAM on my video card (Diamond Stealth 3D > > 2000). Even though I boot Windoze 98 SE at 1024 x 768 in 16 bit color, > > KDE still comes up with only 8 bit (256 colors). I don't understand > > why. > > Well, my 3d-3000 box states that you need 4MB to do 16M (24bpp) color. > You can do up to 65K colors with 2MB. > > Kent > > > > > Has anyone else had a similar challenge? Please respond to my personal > > email address. > > > > Mark > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > System Details: > > > > i386 architecture > > AMD K-6 CPU @ 200Mhz > > 64 MB RAM > > PS/2 Mouse > > 2800MB hard drive for FBSD > > IDE bus > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com > http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message