Re: X: competition for colours
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 AJT60@student.canterbury.ac.nz 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
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