Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:58:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: Doug <Doug@gorean.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> Subject: Re: Netscape hoggin' up all my colors Message-ID: <XFMail.990831175817.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> In-Reply-To: <19990831104757.A12615@athena.tera.com>
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[i am no longer on -questions, pls CC me if you want me to read your reply.] On 31-Aug-99 Gary Kline wrote: > > When I saw this thread a lightbulb went off. In trying to set up > a private color map, I found that I couldn't allocate more than > a few--possibly 8 or 10 when I'd like 16 or 20 colors. > > I've got a Matrox Millennium card with 8MB of ram and yet continually > run out of colors by using just two netscapes. My 17" tube is going > at 1280x1024 and doing only 75x75 pix fonts. This sounds like a problem with DefaultColorDepth, really. I have a Diamond Viper V550 w/ 16MB SGRAM and a Mag Innovision MX21F 21" monitor. I can handle nearly anything loaded with 24 or 32bpp. One combination: StarOffice 5.1, GIMP 1.1, 10 Netscape 4.61 windows, XFMail, 10 dockapps (don't ask.), superb background (OpenBSD *shrug*), Licq, gcombust, TkDesk, 10+ rxvt's, and so on. 24-32 bits can handle nearly all your needs. You just need a really good video card to handle that at a good resolution, which I think is at a minimum of 1024x768. I handle all the above at 1280x1024, 74Hz, normally. > This was auto-configured by the Xfree configuration program. Before I > try the change from 8 to 24 as the DefaultColorDepth, is this likely > to improve my resolution? Not your resolution. Your depth is DEPENDENT on your resolution - the higher the resolution, the lower bpp you'll be able to support. Of course, if you have a kick-ass whiz-bang video card like mine, you can support 32 bpp at anything going straight up to 1600x1280. :-) But, it's normally best to go at 24 bpp, since that will use less physical RAM. > Should I change the first ``Depth 8'' default or will the driver accept > the DefaultColorDepth...? It will accept. > Driver "Accel" I'm jealous. I haven't found an accel server for my card yet. :\ > BlankTime 0 > SuspendTime 0 > OffTime 0 Thanks for these three lines! I got really sick of X turning the screen off when I have xlockmore taking care of screen glare. xlockmore rules. :-) > SubSection "Display" > Depth 8 > Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > "640x40 > 0" "512x384" "480x300" "400x300" "320x240" "320x200" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 15 > Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > "640x40 > 0" "512x384" "480x300" "400x300" "320x240" "320x200" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 16 > Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > "640x40 > 0" "512x384" "480x300" "400x300" "320x240" "320x200" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > "640x40 > 0" "512x384" "480x300" "400x300" "320x240" "320x200" > EndSubSection > SubSection "Display" > Depth 32 > Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > "640x40 > 0" "512x384" "480x300" "400x300" "320x240" "320x200" > EndSubSection > EndSection The large list of modes you have are not necessary for any reason whatsoever. You probably do not want anything under 1024x768 if you can help it. -- Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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