Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:26:19 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> To: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard problems with graphic programms as well as with some programmsunder x11 Message-ID: <20000205122619.A3197@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10002050058450.12679-100000@sun33>; from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de on Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 01:06:50AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10002050058450.12679-100000@sun33>
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On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 01:06:50AM +0100, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> It goes like this : I tried to use gimp1.1.14 and xfig3.2.3a on my fbsd3.3
> machine.The monitor wad getting deep dark blue and lila as soon as I tried
> to move a pointer rendering working with any programms impossible.Some
> other porgramms(xboard,netscape.these are the programms I tried so far)
> are complaining about being imposible to allocate this colour or that.
> The same is true about xosview as I see right now.
> I understand that the whole description is rather narrative and you would
> probably need some additional details.I will gladly provide nay futher
> details.
> NB I have completly deleted KDE previous to launching these programs.
> I did it manually and maybe was not so fine-grained.If it could help.
>
> I REALLY nedd your help!!!
You're probably running with 8-bit color, i.e. "256 colors and that's
it, end of the colormap, go get your private one". And that's what
these programs do when you see them in lilac, dark blue, green,
whatever--they have allocated their own private colormap.
There is an option for XF86Config that will use 16-bit color by default,
I think it is:
DefaultColorDepth 16
and you have to put it in the "Screen" section of your XF86Config.
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