Thanks for all the help. It's much better now. I was looking at the alias that starts X and it turns out I had included "startx - --bpp 24" instead of "startx -- -bpp 24" so it stayed at 8 bit color. *blush* let's just try to keep this between you and I and the hundreds of people on the list at least one of which might learn from my folly. ;)
Brent McMillan wrote: > > I've been playing around with my xf86config and my window manager > (afterstep) for a while trying to get images to appear as nice as when I > view them in Windows. I have a ATI Rage IIc AGP with 8 Mb of RAM and I > run X windows at 24 bpp and a resolution of 1024x768. My problem is > that Netscape has trouble "allocating a colour map entry for the > background" and jpegs and such all appear grainy no matter what program > I use to view them with. I've limited my wharf to 5 colour unintensive > icons, since any more would not appear when the wharf was started. > Also, I just have a plain blue background for my root window. > > Can anyone tell me what needs to be done so that I can get more colours > on my screen? Thanks in advance > > Brent McMillan > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
