>From: Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 12:36:30PM +0100, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
>> Hi
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>> I have a Matrox Millenium II with 4Mg and my XF86Config file it is
>> like this (display section)
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>> Section "Screen"
>> Driver "SVGA"
>> Device "Primary Card"
>> Monitor "Primary Monitor"
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 16
>> Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" =
>"640x400" "512x384" "480x300" "400x300" "320x240" "320x200"
>> EndSubSection
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>> But when I try to run "flying -pool" (and others) I get the message
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>> not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes.
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>> What can I do to get more colors (and planes)? What it is the meaning
>> of "Depth 16"?
>
>Just because you have depth 16 in there, it doesn't mean its running at that
>depth, try startx -- -bpp 16 and see if that fixes it, if not then try
>startx -- bpp 32. You can also put this in your XF86Conig, the line is:
>DefaultColorDepth 16 (or 32)
>
>Depth 16 means 16 bits per pixel which is something like 64000 colors, depth
>32 is 32 bits per pixel, and is 16 million colors.
>
Thank you for your precious info.
Are there any commands that allows one to see the actual
configuration?
Something like "showcolors", or "showdepth", or ...?
At\'e breve
Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Departamento de Matem\'atica
Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia
Universidade de Coimbra
P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/
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