Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 17:43:52 +0000 From: "Jason Gilbert" <jason@homewood.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: # of colors displayed under XFree86 Message-ID: <199512132343.RAA23866@koala.scott.net>
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I have been trying in vain for the past week to figure out how to display more than 256 colors under XFree86. I have all the information that is required in the configuration program (chip type, RAMDAC, video memory, etc.) I entered it all and it still does not seem to work. I have a STB Powergraph Pro video card and a Gateway 2000 17" vivitron monitor. I'm only looking for at least 32K color (or more would be nice) and it works fine under windows 3.1. I've tried adding the -bpp 16 option at the command line(I don't think it is having any effect) and setting the VISUAL="PseudoColor" to TrueColor and DirectColor. The colors seem to lessen under Direct and display worse. Under True, the colors are fine until I start netscape and then when I move the pointer any where off of the netscape window the colors become psychadelic and when I move it back the colors return inside the window but the border is messed up. The colors inside the window on graphics are still splochy(sp?). This is mainly what I want to get rid of. Sorry this is so wordy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in Advance, Jason Jason Gilbert jason@scott.net/jason@homewood.net http://www.homewood.net/
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