Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 19:21:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: Scott Cotton <scott@chronis.pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: allocating colors for a color terminal in X Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909121919200.10047-100000@peloton.runet.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990912191034.A42628@chronis.pobox.com>
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Hi On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Scott Cotton wrote: > I've got XFree86 v 3.3.3.1 running on 3.3RC, with GNUstep 0.6 and > gnome stuff, and I'd like it to always be able to allocate the colors > necessary for color terminals like color-xterm and what not. I should > have plenty of resources for it, as my graphics card has 8megs of ram, > but color terminals which start after doing much of anything with > color in an xsession report errors allocating colors, and the session > defaults those colors that it can't allocate to be the background > color of the terminal, rendering lots of stuff invisible. How are you starting X - are you telling it to use 16, 24 or 32 bpp? If you're not you're getting 8 bpp which is why you're running out of colors. It sounds like you're running xdm - either start xdm w/ one of the above or make sure that DefaultColorDepth is defined in your XF86Config. To start xdm up w/ more than 8 bpp, modify your Xservers file (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers) script to look like: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 32 Brett ***************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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