Agree, but I should be able to do 800 x 600 with 256 colors and on meg of
video memory. My winblows machine does this without any problem. Is X
that much different?
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Miroslaw Wodniak wrote:
> 1M RAM memory on video card is not going to give many more colors. You could
> try to reduce the size of your screen and/or number of virtual screens (not
> sure if that helps). I don't think forcing 'bpp' with 'startx' command would
> help
> Mike
>
> Donavan Nelson wrote:
>
> > I've got a stock install of RH 5.0 with X. But I can not get the display
> > to use more than 6 bits per rgb value.
> >
> > I have an S3 Trio64V2 PCI clone type car with 1 meg-o-video ram. All I'm
> > trying to do is use netscape to view some local pages, but the graphics
> > are terrible because of the lost color depth.
> >
> > Suggestions or help?
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