Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> No - the main thing here is whether your X server has enough colors available. >> The 8-bit displays don't. I've tested this mostly with 16-bit displays. >> xterm has defaults for the color resources (compiled in), so that's normally >> not a problem. Otherwise, when color is enabled there's no additional >> resources controlling whether the 256-colors are available. >>
> sorry for coming back so quick, I found some info on the net and > just restarted X with > startx -- :1 -bpp 16 That looks right (for some reason I've forgotten, on one of my older boxes I decided to not edit the XF86Config-4 file - probably to see what the automatic configuration & updates would do). But perhaps your XFree86 config-file doesn't have a display defined for that value. Mine's a bit hacked up (adapted settings from other systems my machine boots on since the automatic configuration didn't work well). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
