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From: Joseph Olatt <joji@eskimo.com>
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On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:50:21PM -0700, John Hein wrote:
> Joseph Olatt wrote at 18:36 -0800 on Mar  1, 2009:
>  > I'm currently running the vesa driver and sometimes the display
>  > seems to be losing colors (like as though it is switching from 24-bit
>  > color to 4-bit color)...
>  > 
>  > Don't worry about it for now. I'm not sure I understand what is going
>  > on. I will try to understand what is going on...
>  > 
>  > Thanks for all your attempts.
> 
> I've seen palette issues like that with vesa on linux, too (like after
> killing a gnome session, then gdm comes up using very few colors).


John, Thanks for that info. I do have Ubuntu installed on the same box
and my next task was to attempt to see if I could reproduce the problem
I was seeing with FreeBSD on Ubuntu. 

I also suspected the vesa driver and since both FreeBSD and Ubuntu use
the same Xorg and vesa drivers, the problem being apparent in both OSes
would make sense.

Thanks for saving me some time.