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From: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au>
To: Tony Harverson <tony@hornet.netac.co.za>
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Subject: Re: 16 million colours ?
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On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Tony Harverson wrote:

> I was just wondering if anyone has got xfree86 operating in more than
> 256 colours.
> 
> The Init sequence of Xfree86 correctly identifies the card as a cirrus
> logic gd5430 with 1mb ram.

Get some more RAM for your card, at 800x600x256 is about the best you can 
get with 1MB.