From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 19 18:17:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA22441 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 18:17:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jabba.greerhome.louisville.ky.us (jabba.greerhome.louisville.ky.us [24.235.28.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA22430 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 18:17:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greer@jabba.greerhome.louisville.ky.us) Received: from jabba.greerhome.louisville.ky.us (localhost.greerhome.louisville.ky.us [127.0.0.1]) by jabba.greerhome.louisville.ky.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA00483 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:17:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from greer@jabba.greerhome.louisville.ky.us) Message-ID: <35B29A9C.7E3D25E@jabba.greerhome.louisville.ky.us> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 21:17:17 -0400 From: Daniel Lee Greer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: More Colors in X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have just recently installed FreeBSD 2.2.5 and am running X so that I can use Netscape. I am having a problem getting X to run in more than just the standard 256 colors. I have looked thruout the mailing list archives, and it seems that the number one answer that everyone seems to give is that you should invoke startx -- -bpp 16 (Or whatever) to get that many bit planes. I have also seen to edit the .xinitrc or the .Xresources, or the XF86Config file. I have tried all of these unsucsessfully. Now, it may be that netscape just wont work in more than 256 colors but I find that hard to believe. To give you a bit of info, I am using a S3Virge 2 MEG video card running X in 1024X768 trying to run it in 16BIT, as that is max with 2 MEGS of video RAM, I have set my X program to execute /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3V I have tried with just the XF86_S3 but I am unable to start the server. I really would love to figure this out, but I guess I am really missing something pretty simple. If there is someone out there that may be able to help me with this issue, I would be very much indebted to them. Oh, another thig, to mention, I am running the mwm window manager. Thanks in advance. Daniel Greer greer@jabba.greerhome.louisville.ky.us To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message