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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