On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, G. Crimp wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a generic S3 Trio64V+ card. Until recently it had only the > > stock 1 M of memory. With that, if I had, Netscape running and then tried > > to run something else that used a lot of colour, occasionally, the second > > app would fail to start up with a message like `Not enough colours'. If I > > retried once or twice to run it, it would eventually come up. > > > > Okay, here's a couple of ideas. Even with your new video card, you may > still be running with 8 bit colour (that's the default for X, I believe). > Use > > startx -- -bpp 16 > > to get 16 bit colour, (you can use 24 or 32 as well). If you use xdm, you > have to put something in one of the X resource configuration files, but I > can't remember what. I think the file might be .Xresources, check the man > pages. Actually, you can use the DefaultColorDepth flag in XF86Config (read the XF86Config man page). This sets it for xdm, startx and any other x thing. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
