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Date:      Thu, 9 Oct 1997 17:55:13 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Min Huang (tunny)" <hmin@public.cq.sc.cn>
Cc:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: color?
Message-ID:  <19971009175513.32365@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.971009160417.23794B-100000@public.cq.sc.cn>; from Min Huang (tunny) on Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 04:06:08PM %2B0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971008112744.1647A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> <Pine.SOL.3.91.971009160417.23794B-100000@public.cq.sc.cn>

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On Thu, Oct 09, 1997 at 04:06:08PM +0800, Min Huang (tunny) wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Doug White wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Min Huang (tunny) wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,sir,
>>>
>>>> ico -faces -colors red blue -sleep 1
>>> ico: can't allocate enough color planes
>>>
>>> What's the matter?
>>
>> This means that some program that uses a lot of color (Netscape et. al.)
>> is using up all the colors of your display.  Either:
>>
>
> I was not using those type programs, but just a CXterm(will be this??),and
> I was under startx -bpp 16 mode.

I think this is the real problem.  ico can't handle 16 bit mode.

Greg



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